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I don't understand how you can say that. If McDonalds opened a new restaurant next door to each of their highest grossing existing restaurants, and charged lower prices there, do you think that would be completely fair to the franchisees that spent millions of dollars building and operating those restaurants for McDonalds? Why would it ever be fair for a franchisor to act like that?

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Unless the franchise has a contract with the franchisor that states non-compete, then it is not only fair but completely legal.

A franchise had the capital to make their own restaurant but chose to be subservient to a franchisor instead. That's on them. Owning a business has great rewards, but is supposed to have great risk too.

It is time we brought the risk back. Policy the is cut throat to business is good policy. Businesses should be ravenously competing, failing, and going bankrupt. There should be no bailouts. There should be no patents. It should be survival of the fittest -- as it is for the poorest of society.

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