Capitalism Breeds Innovation

Capitalism itself rarely invents new things, but it does optimize existing things quite well

Though what it tries to optimize it for isn't always what is best for the consumer

This is a dumb post

Even though I disagree with the statement "capitalism breeds innovation", this is poor way to demonstrate that it's bullshit.

Of course a chicken sandwich isn't going to appear fundamentally different from Popeyes to KFC. They're also not the only items that these restaurants sell.

The idea is that these restaurants exist as some kind of better option over a local mom & pop sandwich joint with higher unit overhead. Whether or not the value proposition is sufficient for you is personal.

See, unfettered capitalism is completely fucked, but this is a bad example. It would be like getting a bunch of different coffee brands and putting them together like this and saying the same thing.

Coffee is coffee.

Chicken Sandwiches are chicken sandwiches.

There are bigger issues with capitalism that are worth discussing instead

I don't get it, how much can you possibly do to differentiate a chicken sandwich? There's plenty of issues to discuss but you can do better than this, come on.

The fuck is this shit meant to mean?

What do you want when you order a chicken sandwich? Do you want them to give you a burger?

They taste distinctly different. I like spicy chicken sandwiches so I've tried a couple of these. Burger King's tastes like they just slapped a bunch of ingredients together and wrapped it up. McDonald's actually tastes and feels like a chicken sandwich. Popeye's has a very buttery mouth feel, and the bun is a lot more flavorful and rich.

I get what the meme is trying to say, but this is a poor example of it.

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Capitalism is when burger

Considering they're all trying to copy Chick-fil-A’s sandwich, yes

Popeyes putting their fried chicken on Brioche with a decent sauce was an innovation, at least for fast food. It was sold out at most locations in CA when it launched. The BK and KFC both copied it.

Maybe it's because this is posted in c/politicalmemes but I think y'all are thinking to deeply about something that should be a mild chuckle and then moving on.

I think you're all missing the point, half of these places were known for hamburgers, the other half for whole pieces of fried chicken. They all ended up with slight variations on the same product. The point isn't that they should've innovated the chicken sandwich it's that they all ended up with the same product, the opposite of innovation in a market full of restaurants.

Capitalism takes innovation and beats the life out of it to flog the corpse for a quick buck. The thing that made KFC special wasn't the blend of herbs and spices (that they don't even fucking use anymore and you used to be able to buy ready mixed at the shops) it was the new innovative cooking technique that they immediately tossed in the trash because it was cheaper to just throw it all in a deep frier like everyone already did.

Yup it really sucks we don't get good EVs because so far all the legacy automotive companies want to keep on making ridiculous SUVs.

And to all the libertarians present: This would be even worse if things were totally unregulated.

I realized this a couple of days ago when we were in a rush to be somewhere and thought to just go for fastfood drive-thru to eat. Asked my wife what she liked and she said not a burger. Every fastfood drive-thru I could think of was a burger/sandwich except for taco bell.

Popeye's blackened spicy is by FAR the superior spicy chicken sandwich.

It breeds it in the same way breed means to consumate offspring i.e. to have sex, wich is coloquially know as fuck

Ergo: Capitalism fucks innovation

Am I the only one who thinks the Popeyes sandwich is the greasiest fuckin thing ever? Everyone raved about it but I couldn't finish it, I really gave it an honest try. It was gross.

That Popeyes sandwich is lit tho...

All of these taste completely different

The only thing this post did was make me hungry.

This capitalism is making me hungry.

This is a bad example. Each of them taste different. I would prefer KFC than McDonald's burger any day.

The KFC Double Down exists though

Some have pickles. Others have lettuce. The system works. /s

Capitalism breeds the lowest common denominator.

Innovation just get you to the point of being large enough to stop innovating and focus entirely on maximizing profitability which is done by maximizing your appeal to the lowest common denominator.

I can only imagine how delicious some current fast food was at their original store locations before being chained out and degraded in quality.

How are you support to innovate a sandwich? The only diffrence is the quality of taste, and even then it's still all fast food, so it's no less good/bad than the others.

I love the fact that there are people saying that all these are different and they love having that choice.

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Are you ok, Spongebob?

Chicken is life.

You could easily make a similar meme using cell phones and the "innovations" of everyone copying Apple (which often just copied someone else), especially on stuff that's stupid, like removing the headphone jack, gluing the back to make changing battery a hassle, thinness being good for whatever reason.

Pelicana missing

I must be missing something here, because I've had Popeye's and it's just a chicken sandwich like all the others. It's not like they're making it from scratch like they would at some small business.

Now show the chicken sandwich options available in North Korea

Chicken burgers are pretty solid though

I love the mobile game version of this because it shows how everyone just rips each other off. This is more of an example of food companies optimizing a tried and true formula.

And only like two or three are even remotely good tasting.

I swear to god the homophobia makes the chicken hit better at Chick-fil-A

I once ask my doctor how many times a week it would be ok to eat fastfood and the answer was never. Like seriously. I still eat some like once a week and those days most always turn out to be my least productive days, by far.

So the general vibe I'm getting from the comments is that Pope's chick is simultaneously the best and worst chicken.

Listen, on the one hand, yes. On the other hand, I believe that Chick Fil A originally commercialized the fast food fried chicken sandwich, and their chicken sandwich sucks. So in this one specific instance, I am grateful.

Having lots of options for chicken sandwiches doesn't seem to be a problem with capitalism, and one could always decline to eat a chicken sandwich, or make your own. Wealth inequality and special interests controlling the government are much more of a problem.

So multiple companies selling their own version of a chicken sandwich = capitalism bad?

The two things that fascinate me the most:

1. Someone actually bought all these different chicken burgers to put them in the same picture

2. People call these things 'sandwiches'. Wtf?

Only one of those is any good

I blame liberal college indoctrination for this stupid post