About that billion dollars in revenues that Whole Foods is reporting.
When I was about five, growing up among the rusting refineries and
mills and shipyards and toxic waste drums of Chester, PA,
http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/pen/crcql/index.html
I read about somebody who was a billionaire. Probably in /Look/ or
/Life/.
Starry eyed and deeply impressed, I told my father about this. He
was a sheet metal mechanic with an 8th grade education and a
tattered, furtively carried card pledging membership to a union
(Boilermakers-Blacksmiths Local 802) Sun Oil wouldn't allow at its
shipyard, where he and all the menfolk in my family and neighborhood
(and the women, during WWII) worked.
Then I asked, "What's the difference between a hundred dollars and a
billion dollars?" I was, of course, being quantitative; I knew a
hundred dollars would buy a motorcycle at the time, a basic unit of
value in my mind, then as now. Only now I measure in Ducatis.
But his answer was moral. He looked at me, pained and amused, and
replied, "A bunch of zeroes." It took me twenty more years to get the
joke and the wisdom.
peace
misha
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