Gates can visit any McDonald’s worldwide and enjoy a free meal for life.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Turns out McDonald’s is the good guy after all.

    Trying to slowly assassinate the worlds billionaires with high cholesterol and CHF.

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        8 months ago

        He’s been known to eat at a local burger chain called Dick’s, so he definitely eats fast food burgers. Dick’s is much better than McDonald’s, though, so I don’t know if he eats there.

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    8 months ago

    This is fucking retarded, of all the people to get free meals for life, they choose someone who is so rich it wouldn’t surprise me if he could buy the entire chain of restaurants.

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      That’s the point though, right? It’s all publicity. They don’t want to give it to someone who may actually use it. Give it to the billionaire who will never use it so.

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        Even if he did stop and order at McDonald’s, he’d probably still pay for his meal.

        Would be pretty funny for him to go in during rush hour and order free food for everyone waiting in line using the card… though there probably is some fine print.

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          Even if he did stop and order at McDonald’s, he’d probably still pay for his meal.

          I’m betting someone like Gates stopped carrying a wallet with money in it decades ago and is so far disconnected from the price of anything because of his vast wealth that he may not even think to pay for his meal, not because he feels entitled, but because he has had ‘people’ to do that for him for so long.

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            8 months ago

            He had a game show thing on Ellen a while ago where he thought something cost $25 that was a couple dollar item.

            He absolutely has no idea how much everyday items cost.

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    8 months ago

    Yeah, but he’d have to eat there. Don y’all have laws against cruel and unusual punishments over yonder?

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    Give a man a dollar, and the IRS will tax it from you and you’ll starve. Give a man a billion dollars, and he won’t have to spend a penny of it on food…

    I know I’m not the only one that sees the problem with this picture.

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        And can’t even buy a candy bar with it, before or after tax…

        Edit: Funny that anyone would downvote my comment here. It costs almost twice as much for a candy bar as a bottle of beer where I’m from. $1.70 for a bottle of beer, like $2.95 for a candy bar. No shit.

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    Bill Gates isn’t Donald Trump. He wouldn’t do that.

    Edit: You people really think Bill Gates ever eats at McDonald’s unless it’s for a photo op?

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    8 months ago

    Thought I was on Not the Onion for a moment there. Or the actual Onion.

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    8 months ago

    in the 1980s my dad somehow ended up with a business card from Carl’s Jr with some note on it. whenever he showed it at the drive through, the manager would personally deliver the order and it was all free.

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    8 months ago

    “bUt hE WoRkEd So HaRd tO aChIEvE iT!!”

    We all know this is just for clout. It’s unlikely that Bill goes to any McD anywhere, that’s “below” him, but it still generates bait for brainwashed “entrepreneurs”, who see this as “success attracting success”. It’s not. It’s money wanting to show off to different money. You know how heads of state often gift one another useless trinkets as a token gesture? This is that.

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    That’s kinda disgusting. In a world where we produce in excess the needs of everyone, but some must go without because of ilk like Gates and Buffett, the hoarders are blessed with the gift of also not having to pay for stuff themselves.