The Dumbest Business Decision Ever
September 15, 2022
The billionaire founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has given the company away. The ownership has been transferred to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization to ensure that all profits, about $100 million a year, are used to fight climate change. Fighting against climate change is like fighting against the darkness or the tides.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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