Poll of the Day > If a billionaire spent 95% of all his money/salary on KFC

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uses 95% of all his funds to get KFC for the rest of his life to combat world hunger, with the other 5% for himself. Makes a Twitter post saying he had two goals. 1) to help combat world hunger and 2) he hates PETA so he wanted to spite them.
How pissed off would PETA be and what would KFC look like as a business?

Well, the employees would be needlessly stressed and still not making the poverty line in wages, and the CEO(s) of the company would be flaunting their success all the while, making themselves look shiny as all get-out in terms of public image. No one would care about what PETA has to say except for PETA.

I don't even understand the question? Using 95% of their resources to give out kfc freely or something?

BlackScythe0 posted...

I don't even understand the question? Using 95% of their resources to give out kfc freely or something?

Yes

The other 5% would go in to KFC stocks and the poor would die of malnutrition.

So basically he's trying to kill people?

BlackScythe0 posted...

So basically he's trying to kill people?

Maybe not people, but definitely lots of chickens

I'm not sure how many billionaires actually have billions in assets... I'm sure there definitely are some, but it seems like lately all the billionaires in the news are based solely on company valuation and not assets.

How would any of this connect with PETA?

Entity13 posted...

Well, the employees would be needlessly stressed and still not making the poverty line in wages

Oh lawdy...

Entity13 posted...

and the CEO(s) of the company would be flaunting their success

Because your post wasn't stupid enough, you don't know how franchising works. KFC may be even more heavily franchised than McDonald's. The rank & file workers at the KFC you likely never go to anyway have zero connection to the CEO of Yum! brands. Yum! makes its money off the franchisees -- which includes guys stuck working at their location 7 days a week because they can't afford help -- rather than the end-customer in the vast majority of cases.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I don't even understand the question? Using 95% of their resources to give out kfc freely or something?

The logistics involved in the hypothetical are also baffling, since many of the areas with food insecurity don't have KFCs.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The other 5% would go in to KFC stocks and the poor would die of malnutrition.

Pretty sure people with food outlive people who starve to death.

Lokarin posted...

I'm not sure how many billionaires actually have billions in assets... I'm sure there definitely are some, but it seems like lately all the billionaires in the news are based solely on company valuation and not assets.

Also this. The conventional notion of a billionaire is somewhat meaningless.

The KFC near me is constantly out of chicken

Oh my Zeus is simping for corporations, who would have thought

Count_Drachma posted...

Pretty sure people with food outlive people who starve to death.

Literal starvation is extremely rare with food banks. Those food banks would stop being around if KFC was doing the legwork.

i would donate a billion for them to just bring back their buffets

god fucking damn the only times i was ever truely happy was when i was at kfc buffet

between food costs and covid seems like most buffets have gone away

its a bummer

kfc got rid of their buffets like over a decade ago

Ferarri619 posted...

Yes

Guy's a real psycho because fried chicken is probably the most unhealthy thing you can eat

hera posted...

kfc got rid of their buffets like over a decade ago

yep I remember the one in Boulder City was one of the last ones to have it, they also still had Mac & Cheese when they got rid of it at most locations for a few years

we would hit it up sometimes on the way to Vegas

VampireCoyote posted...

The KFC near me is constantly out of chicken

I stopped going to the only one left in my town because the pieces got really small and we couldn't even be 100% sure it was chicken.

Count_Drachma posted...

Oh lawdy...

I like how whenever you don't have a legitimate or valid response, you opt instead for "oh lawdy" or cuing a laugh track. I like this because it tells me there is no suitable reason to continue the conversation or remind you, for the umpteenth time, what the actual facts are on certain matters. It saves me time and energy.

Count_Drachma posted...

you don't know how franchising works. KFC may be even more heavily franchised than McDonald's. The rank & file workers at the KFC you likely never go to anyway have zero connection to the CEO of Yum! brands. Yum! makes its money off the franchisees -- which includes guys stuck working at their location 7 days a week because they can't afford help -- rather than the end-customer in the vast majority of cases.

This even says nothing for against what I had actually said. Which is classic Zeus, misrepresenting what's been said as if it were an argument against the honest truth.

So yeah, I'm not going to bother responding further.

Count_Drachma posted...

Oh lawdy...

I'm sorry, do you live in some sort of fantasy world where KFC does pay a living wage and where KFC corporate wouldn't allocate only the absolute bare minimum number of employees needed to spend their entire shifts producing this $950 million worth of chicken?

Count_Drachma posted...

Also this. The conventional notion of a billionaire is somewhat meaningless.

You keep parroting this "technically they don't have $1 billion in liquid assets!" nonsense as though those that qualify as billionaires don't have vastly more purchasing power (and therefore pretty much every other kind of power) than any ordinary citizen could ever dream of attaining. Not being able to liquidate their entire fortune overnight does absolutely nothing to change that underlying fact. Bringing it up every single time anyone discusses billionaires is completely missing the point of pretty much everything everyone is saying and I really don't know why you have such a hard time understanding this.

and McDonald's very handily defeats KFC in terms of franchises

TC doesn't understand that "da billionaires" do not make a salary like a normal plebian like you or I.

$950,000,000 would only buy about 38 million 8-piece chicken meals, assuming $25 each. That's not going to make a very big dent in world hunger at all, and it's not even that many chickens (Costco sells 100 million rotisserie chickens every year).

captpackrat posted...

$950,000,000 would only buy about 38 million 8-piece chicken meals, assuming $25 each. That's not going to make a very big dent in world hunger at all, and it's not even that many chickens (Costco sells 100 million rotisserie chickens every year).

Man that better be some good chicken for $25

But yeah half that number and your point still stands.

Count_Drachma posted...
Pretty sure people with food outlive people who starve to death.

Did you mistake KFC with something that actually resembles food?

Peta would literally phase out of existence from being so mad

Buddyblade posted...

Peta would literally phase out of existence from being so mad

xD

Ferarri619 posted...

xD

Either that or they get figuratively exposed nerve prankd

DarkMinun posted...

Did you mistake KFC with something that actually resembles food?

Oh yeah I forgot about those cyborg chickens

DarkMinun posted...

Pretty sure people with food outlive people who starve to death.

Did you mistake KFC with something that actually resembles food?

As a USDA employee that primarily inspects a facility that harvests chickens for KFC, I can assure you, that at least prior to the breading, its food.

DarkMinun posted...

Pretty sure people with food outlive people who starve to death.

Did you mistake KFC with something that actually resembles food?

So they serve glass instead?

I thought I heard a whoosh sound. <_<

honestly, hungry people are better off hungry

I used to work at a KFC/A&W hybrid that was in a weird location so it didnt really get much traffic and I got so fucking stoned every day. It was awesome

If a billionare really wanted to feed the world/hungry, it would take much more then a few billion to do it even for 1 year.

We are almost at 8 billion people on this planet. if you JUST wanted to feed all of them for 1 week, and you could do so for only $10 a person (including costs to ship it/make it/grow or breed it etc) which is insanely low, it would cost about 560 billion dollars.

Even if you said half the people on the planet are well enough off that they would turn their noses up at a free meal......that still would would bankrupt the top 3 people in the world. Two weeks would make all 10 of the richest people in the world broke.

Now, if instead you started creating companies that made food and sold it at cost (including labor etc), that you could do with a few billion and help tons of people. Mark up on most places is so freaking insane, and if you did that, you would force prices down for others as well, dropping the cost of food everywhere pretty much. In the end you would actually help way more people. Top that off by actually paying your employees a decent wage (and it still would probably be half the price food is currently), and you would really make the world a better place.

Amazingly, not one billionare has done anything like that, even though it would be at cost and not actually cost them anything, it just wouldn't make them a huge profit.

elon musk was going to do it

he asked the un to give him a price

they did and it was 6 billion

he refused

hera posted...

elon musk was going to do it

he asked the un to give him a price

they did and it was 6 billion

he refused

Remove all landmines mines from Cambodia, or be 20% richer? Yeah I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that

the thing is that it would have immediately turned him into a saint for billions of people

but nah, that green paper tho