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Date: September 11, 2021 05:06PM
The modern LDS Church is a corporation. In many ways it’s similar to McDonald’s. McDonald’s owns most it’s locations and makes most it’s revenue in real estate. The church makes most it’s revenue in both commercial and agricultural real estate.
McDonald’s has a strict form of centralized standardization that makes all McDonald’s locations worldwide the same. The church is no different.
Some McDonald’s are themed McDonald’s reflecting something unique about the locations they are in. The LDS does the same with it’s temples by putting local styles, decorations and art around, on and in the temples. A temple in Mexico may have a Spanish or Aztec look. This is a cheesy attempt to make these temples become local landmarks and cherished heirlooms of the members.
Like many large corporations, the church isn’t very good at adapting to new social changes. They stick with the same formula and the leadership are so comfortable and out of touch in their bubble they really don’t have the pulse of the real world. They have the resources to survive many mistakes but eventually the success becomes the demise.
Sears would be a great example. One of the first great mail order companies. Sears completely destroyed it’s retail empire by completely missing the on-line internet trend. Sears could have been Amazon with the greater advantage of having stores or distribution centers big items could be delivered to and even final assembled for the customer. Of course management were comfortable in a bubble and had the luxury of making mistake after mistake. So is the life cycle of corporations.
The LDS corporation’s worst performing division is the religious part of it. It’s losing it’s base and it’s products are so dated the younger generations are saying “yuck!”