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>What does America have to offer in 2021 that would prevent said executives (at the potential behest of shareholders) from jumping ship?

Kind of difficult to sell somebody a cheeseburger in America without hiring Americans. It's just one of those things that can't be outsourced.

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Giving American fast food restaurants two paths:

1. automate

2. become a charity

> 1. automate

Won't work. Customers are generally not going to figure out your UI, and even when they do a special case is going to come up once every five or so checkouts that requires employee intervention.

> 2. become a charity

This is a better idea. They should include e.g. 50¢ in the price of every Big Mac that will be donated to the workers who cooked and served it.

I like your answer to #2, but that’s not a charity, that’s aligned incentives.

McDonald’s doesn’t employ the burger makers. They work for franchisees, who don’t necessarily have “executives and shareholders”.

3. Be less profitable

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