Matt Christman - The Founder and Capitalism 

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.

Prayers up for Matt rn 🙏🙏🙏 I hope he’s ok

I think it's funny that Will has a movie podcast, when Matt's film analysis is so much more interesting.

Holy shit Matt needs to do this more. Also great work with the relevant clips scattered throughout

I use this scene in class for Weber's rationalization.

The editing really brings this to life. Good shit brother

Excellent observation about the creative artist entrepreneurial brothers vs. the Kroc void

Keep making these! There's so many gems hidden among both Chapo and Cushblog

Please keep these coming! They are Excellent!

get well soon matt ❤️‍🩹

Robert Siegel also wrote The Wrestler and was an editor for The Onion

Brutal. Thanks for putting this together.

Incredible fucking composition, friend.

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

Fell off for a few years but I love the man. Hope you pull through, Matt.

Matt is such a treasure

big pray for Matt Christ. cvlog was/is very important fer me since pandemic. love

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".

The story is like tesla and elon stealing the company from the other two guys that founded it.

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

You picked a good day to upload this

I do love our large boy but that fungus/bacteria comment at the end . Dude fungus /bactiria are great ! That's good persistance .

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.

This was the only good brand movie I’ve ever seen.

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”.

McDonald’s as we know it will always be an imitation. An illusion of a hamburger. Imagine Dragons, only edible.

It's interesting that the movies called "The Founder", not "The Founders".

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.

How do people make it into adulthood remaining hollow like that

They don't fight each other that much because they know they need help from others to stay in power.

Well, that was depressing.

We need a kinder gentler capitalism

This ain’t about capitalism

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.

Theres a great song by mark knopfler abouf krok called boom like that

Nice… gather ‘round for Papa Christman’s stories of “the history of the end of the world” 🍻

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.

thanks for these videos , your doing god's work

Really nice edit 👌

5:33 Ray Kroc has no creative anything. That sounds a lot like Bill Gates.

lol I love how that guy forever more will be referred to as "the zodiac actor" its true tho!

Prayers up for brother Matt

Wait I thought he founded crocs of wish Cushbomb is an avid fan

i always come back to this.

Matt rules. Love this guy

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.

I’m getting McDonald’s tomorrow!

Shaggy from Scooby Doo ass T-shirt

I thought that movie theaters were supposed to be insulated from depressions

This guy has that Jordan Peterson effect of saying something I might instinctively already know but being compelling to watch.

Open class actions

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'm so happy to have this drunk Midwestern tell me who's part of what class as if it were a scientific truth.

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

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.