The Founder

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== Ethical Implications ==

There is a significant amount of ethical questioning in ''The Founder'', including the ethics behind entrepreneurship, corporate power, and direct success lines. The film highlights issues surrounding contracting, power imbalances, and the fallibility of verbal agreements. The film exemplifies the correlation of ambition and its impact on ethics, often creating blurred lines between what is good and bad, what is honest or dishonest. One of the key concerns of this manipulation that ''The Founder'' brings up is the manipulation that is bound in contracts and bad-faith negotiations. At the start of the film, Kroc consents to strict terms set by the McDonald brothers, specifically surrounding quality assurance and expansion; as things grow within the company, Kroc poses concerns across the board. Kroc then creates a corporation to control more of the business, leveraging his ability to navigate the original contract with swiftness; this legal loophole was imperative to getting around the rigid bounds of the contract–this is standard bad-faith negotiation, where someone agrees to terms but later looks for ways around them.

Additionally, there is a significant power imbalance within the parties, as Kroc gains more resources and power, the relationship between the two parties begins to shift and change. Kroc eventually persuades the brothers into selling the company, pushing them out of their original position of control. There is an ethical consideration here that encompasses the ethicality behind using resources to force your way into or out of a business deal.

Lastly, the film considers the bindingness of a verbal agreement. In the last deal, Kroc verbally agrees to provide the brothers with royalties bound and agreed upon with a handshake; never putting pen to paper on this specific deal. Due to this oversight, the brothers never had a way to enforce the verbal contract, thus emphasizing the fallibility of informal, verbal agreements.

The film creates a wonderful depiction of how ethical considerations and business decisions impact agreements, professional relationships, and success. ''The Founder'' urges the viewer to assess for themselves their own beliefs and ethical standards, not those set forth in front of them that may be faulty.

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