The bad conditions sparked labor laws such as “people under the age of 18 can’t work over 8 hours a day.” To get around these laws, managers would make their employees clock out, then work two extra hour to help clean up. Because of the conditions of these employees, the managers can take advantage of them by lowering their pay and making them work overtime. “These jobs are for the less wealthy, young adults, and the elderly.” This excerpt from the book helps Schlosser’s argument about the conditions and pay of working under money-hungry executives. Thus began the exploitation of kids from fast food executives.

To get more business they targeted kids, thinking they were the easiest minds to fool. When more fast food restaurants came up, McDonalds became less popular There was cheaper and better places to eat. Kroc helped join Disney land (which was not well known at the time) with McDonald’s to help get both corporations more money. The beginning of corporate greed began with a business man that made McDonald’s the most successful franchise globally: Ray A. Schlosser included this quote because he wanted to show that the big corporations and executives weren’t always corrupt. This was the beginning, when there was no corporate greed. When he said this quote, he was millions of dollars in debt, but still thought life was amazing. Karcher, “My whole philosophy is–never give up…watch the pennies and dollars will take care of themselves…Life is beautiful…This is how I feel about every day of my life”. Talking to the McDonald’s executive and the starter of the fast food industry, Carl N.

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