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Let My People Go Surfing

Reading an excellent book about Patagonia, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard.

I've been a businessman for almost fifty years. It's as difficult for me to say those words as it is for someone to admit being an alcoholic or a lawyer. I've never respected the profession. It's business that has to take the majority of the blame for being the enemy of nature, for destroying native cultures, for taking from the poor giving to the rich, and for poisoning the earth with the effluent from its factories.

Yet business can produce food, cure disease, control population, employ people, and generally enrich our lives. And it can do these good things and make a profit without losing its soul. That's what this book is about.

posted by Bruce Wright at 8:09 PM #

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