People Adore Mediocrity

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In the past five years, let’s say, I’ve probably had one McDonald’s sandwich product. I was starved, and it was wretched. Luckily for McDonald’s, most people aren’t at all like me, and they literally and figuratively gobble this stuff up worldwide.

Here’s their lifetime stock chart. I’ve done something unusual and am showing this as a percentage chart, because the percentage gain – – 160,000% – – is the kind of number that establishes multi-generational family fortunes.