Matt Christman - The Founder and Capitalism
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Matt's extended thoughts on the 2016 film THE FOUNDER and what it teaches us about capitalism.
Starring Michael Keaton as milkshake machine salesman Ray Kroc, the film portrays the story of the creation of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch co-star as McDonald's founders Richard and Maurice "Mac" McDonald.
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Prayers up for Matt rn 🙏🙏🙏
I hope he’s ok
Did something happen?
@@SomeKindOfScum yeah, he’s in the hospital, sounds like he had a stroke or something
Oh no
The story of McDonald's is the same as Elon Musk's story, as well as so many others. Someone else had the idea, the dream, and the creativity, but Musk had the money and the ruthlessness to claim all the credit.
Jobs and Wozniak
Dang can’t believe he stole someone else’s “idea” to make a rocket-that was a good idea.
@@neuropuritan_zealot8455 taking credit for other people's work is the foundation of Capitalism
@@stephendaley266 that’s a facile comment. I could just as easily say taking other people’s work is the foundation of communism. Idk, just mask your resentment a little more. Rn just boring and sad.
@@neuropuritan_zealot8455 LOL!
If you have a rebuttal, give it.
If you have a point, make it.
If all you have is childish whiny nonsense...
Well, that's just pure entertainment for me!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice… gather ‘round for Papa Christman’s stories of “the history of the end of the world” 🍻
I think it's funny that Will has a movie podcast, when Matt's film analysis is so much more interesting.
I just wish hessa was more articulate. She just says “like” all the time and doesn’t ever really say anything super insightful. It’s like she’s super high every episode.
@@jakecreighton9039 She’s probably only on because Wills banging her
@@jakecreighton9039im so glad someone else feels this way. I always like wills movie reviews but hessa sucks
I don't think Matt watches as many movies as Will.
@@jakecreighton9039Also it’s written “Hesse” not “Hessa”
Holy shit Matt needs to do this more. Also great work with the relevant clips scattered throughout
Look up his discussion of Uncut Gems on Left of the Projector too
I use this scene in class for Weber's rationalization.
Please make more of these. I always thought Chapo would be way bigger now if there were more of these well edited videos. Thank you for trying this.
Please keep these coming! They are Excellent!
That last line hits hard af
Brutal. Thanks for putting this together.
Robert Siegel also wrote The Wrestler and was an editor for The Onion
Holup
That sounds like a guy I wanna study
damn I need to dive more in on him
Excellent observation about the creative artist entrepreneurial brothers vs. the Kroc void
get well soon matt ❤️🩹
Matt is such a treasure
Truly the MVP of Chapo.
Keep making these! There's so many gems hidden among both Chapo and Cushblog
big pray for Matt Christ. cvlog was/is very important fer me since pandemic.
love
Fell off for a few years but I love the man. Hope you pull through, Matt.
If you’re looking for another rags to riches story that leaves the villain hollow, I recommend a fiction book called What Makes Sammy Run
Written by Bud Schulberg
Matt is truly one of the brightest lights of our generation. I hope and pray for his full recovery, we will desperately need his voice in the years to come.
Same. A special kind of genius.
i always come back to this.
Incredible fucking composition, friend.
Really nice edit 👌
Prayers up for brother Matt
Somehow Matt's analysis of Ray Croc and his fungus-like persistence reminds me of Lt. Charlie Marimow, this lapdog who refuses to do actual police work and proper investigations, yet ends up in charge of major crimes only to destroy it from the inside at the behest of his corrupt superiors. When Lester Freamon, one of the few competent police officers, is asked to serve under Marimow, he replies "the man's a virus".
Good observation, I would add Valchek as well, a man who has no interest in police work and who isn't even pretending to solve the problems
Careful praising the Wire here the lumpens which have bought into the Matt/Felix of David Simon is cringe so the Wire is lib propaganda will descend on you
Who?
@@seanbeadles7421Watch The Wire
thanks for these videos , your doing god's work
The story is like tesla and elon stealing the company from the other two guys that founded it.
Except I think the brothers and Ray had wives and kids so smashed. Elon I think the jury is still out on
The final bit about persisting and the Ray Carnegie tapes reminds me of the modern self-help alpha male types. Tate, Gary Vee, etc.
Excellent edit!!!
Great analysis of the film
Matt rules. Love this guy
I do love our large boy but that fungus/bacteria comment at the end . Dude fungus /bactiria are great ! That's good persistance .
Yes, if I must critique one part of Matt's diatribe here, it's that comparing bacteria and fungi to Ray Croc is an insult to bacteria and fungi
5:33
Ray Kroc has no creative anything. That sounds a lot like Bill Gates.
Yeah but Bill had a very wealthy family.
Yeah Gates and Steve Jobs just ripped off Xerox
I guess Gates could, at one point, write code?
You picked a good day to upload this
This movie was so deliciously insidious. It presents itself like a typical American Success flick, but the overarching message becomes “only the most sociopathic survives”. Even Kroc’s “persistence wins” speech is wrapped up in “sacrifice everything else on the altar of capitalism, consumption, and crushing everyone who gets in the way of the first two”.
lol I love how that guy forever more will be referred to as "the zodiac actor" its true tho!
To me he’ll always be Marge’s husband.
He'll always be Drew Carrey's cross-dressing brother to me!
@@ananimal9779 Hear hear, he will also be that guy to me as well.
Really enjoyed your thoughtful and insightful review Matt. Refreshing. thank you -- as a creative with one failed venture behind me, this really resonated too. I love how you delineated the two capitalists' motivations here.
It certainly blunted my desire to try to undertake an ultimately creative venture.
This was the only good brand movie I’ve ever seen.
As Matt has explained before on Chapo, capitalism has directives of its own which supersede the will of any one individual operating within it. As we see with the McDonalds brothers in the movie, capitalism as a system will avail them for their purposes, noble or ignoble as those may be, but ultimately it will prefer those who have no values except those which align with capitalism's directives. Croc crushed the brothers because capitalism gives little to no benefit to high-minded ideals, but does give great benefit (as Matt explained) to those without reservations about fulfilling the directives of capitalism as a system. When I think of what Matt's philosophy on Chapo seems to be, it's (among other things) that capitalism is itself a player in the world, and while a rich person with high ideals might briefly lead a business, they will eventually and inevitably fall to someone else who plays capitalism's game. It's the one thing capitalism rewards of its subjects the most.
The end part where Matt observes that the surface-level division of the US' political parties - into the party of the big capitalist with no scruples and desire for more 0s on their balance and the small capitalist with a dream and a project beyond acquisition of money - being in reality just an aesthetic difference of a country entirely composed of Ray Crocs is something he should bring up more on Chapo, as it's pretty much spot on but (I think) is rarely spoken about.
Maybe turning that conclusion onto Chapo Trap House itself is needed more often as well.
Wait I thought he founded crocs of wish Cushbomb is an avid fan
It's interesting that the movies called "The Founder", not "The Founders".
McDonald’s as we know it will always be an imitation. An illusion of a hamburger. Imagine Dragons, only edible.
I’m getting McDonald’s tomorrow!
How do people make it into adulthood remaining hollow like that
Theres a great song by mark knopfler abouf krok called boom like that
This guy has that Jordan Peterson effect of saying something I might instinctively already know but being compelling to watch.
He looks like hes going to melt
This is a troll right?
Shaggy from Scooby Doo ass T-shirt
They don't fight each other that much because they know they need help from others to stay in power.
I thought that movie theaters were supposed to be insulated from depressions
Well, that was depressing.
Glancing at the posted reviews under the movie, I accidentally saw this little gem of an admission.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
Keaton is fascinating as Kroc, a bad guy who embodies the American Dream - a man who isn't necessarily the best or most talented but who's willing to step on anyone to get ahead.
Now THAT is the most naked definition of the American Dream I have ever seen.
We need a kinder gentler capitalism
Need to donate your brain to someone who will use it.
you need to fight for a hell of a lot more if you even want that to be a possibility tbh, it sucks but it's true.
McDonald's brothers "had a song in their heart" please man slop peddlers of the lowest order. Give me a movie about one of the chicken guys like Sanders or Copeland
I got nothing against the McDonalds, but a movie about Colonel Sanders would be an unhinged blast
@@arnoldfreeman2885 colonel Sanders of Kentucky fried was a slop peddler too. All fast food is evil but at least Al Copeland of Popeyes had a new philosophical idea about fast food that people wanted red pepper
@@arnoldfreeman2885Yeah Sanders wasn't even the chicken man. He was a crazy ass southern lawyer. Great movie potential.
Copeland doesn't have a story to really learn anything from. He'd be another wolf of wallstreet type film.
@@Praisethesunson aww HELL naw Copeland story is way cooler. And let me ask you this, was wolf of wall street bad ? No. Was the Founder good? No. So making a movie about McDonald's or Kentucky Frieds boring capitalist death march is dumb. Make a movie about big Al Copeland a true visionary who didn't just do chicken he built the style of the chain restaurant that only exists in a 1990s nostalgia myth. Add in the crazy speedboats the feud with Anne rice, his kick AZZ signature green jaguar XJ8. Copeland RULES !!!
Open class actions
I'm so happy to have this drunk Midwestern tell me who's part of what class as if it were a scientific truth.
its more plausible than your trolling
You said that the movie shows what capitalism does to people. At the end of the movie, Ray Crok and the McDonald's brothers had gone from poverty to being millionaires. Nailed it.
No dipshit the brothers ended up on their ass and Ray Croc a hollow shell.
Do they pipe stupid in the water supply by you mate?
the movie shows that in capitalism the biggest liars and crooks are often the ones who are rewarded the most. you are being intentionally obtuse because you are a well-trained stooge.
How many million did each get
lol
Did all of the Congolese subjects of the Belgian Congo become millionaires? No? Well, what about Appalachian coal miners? Or the child slaves who makes clothes, shoes, and smartphones in countries that don't have worker protections or labor unions? When are they getting their millions?
This ain’t about capitalism
The ruthlessness of capitalism is GOOD when it spurs innovation but BAD when someone figures out how to publish the idea to millions of people. Roger
creativity spurs innovation. capitalism steals it, copyrights it, and stifles it.