How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees

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How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees
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Bob Moore sounds like he was a good dude. If more business leaders thought like him we'd all be a lot better off.

But that's the point: that level of wealth and power is unhealthy. For literally everyone. We can't just hope more of these insanely privileged people resist corruption and greed to do the right thing and treat their employees fairly (more than fairly, in this case). He was a good dude all right, but a huge exception to the overwhelming norm of wealthy people exploiting their workers...