Liberals are constantly making absurd claims. Just look at the news this year, Libs and the BLM have been trying to destroy their own communities with the Defund the Police movement. So it almost makes sense that Libs would try to find a way to use MacDonald’s ice cream machines data to claim that minority communities are being discriminated against.
This data about whether or not a MacDonald’s ice cream makers are up and running, became available after programmer Rashiq Zahid went to MacDonalds looking for ice cream. Zahid, like many of us have, found out that the ice cream maker was out of service. But unlike everyone else, he decided to find a solution to this problem and created a program that would tell him when any MacDonald’s ice cream machines are down. You can see MacDonald’s ice cream machine statuses map here.
But some Liberals decide to use this data to point out that the ice cream machines in low-income areas tend to be broken/out of service more often.
The Urban Institute found “…in Chicago, McDonald’s locations are underrepresented in low-income, Black, and Latinx areas, but broken machines are overrepresented in Black and renter-heavy neighborhoods. In New York City, McDonald’s restaurants are overrepresented in Latinx and renter communities, while broken machines are overrepresented in Black, high disability rate, and low-income communities.
”We were a little surprised to find that black communities were overrepresented with broken ice cream machines and that this pattern held up across all of the cities we analyzed,” researchers Ajjit Narayanan and Alena Stern wrote in an email. “It is important to note that while our tool can measure the size and scale of disparities, it can’t tell you why those disparities exist. In this case, it could be due to incomplete data, franchisee differences, corporate mismanagement, or a host of other factors. However, this a troubling trend, regardless of the cause.”
It seems kind of obvious that there would be fewer restaurants in low-income areas. Restaurant owners want to be in areas that are wealthier because going out to eat is a luxury. Not everyone can afford to eat out regularly. Restaurants located in low-income areas might also struggle to pay to get their machines serviced as often as necessary. So this is not a “troubling trend.” It makes sense. This is not about inequality, it’s about economics.
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