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There were the innumerable contributions of seniors like Matt Brunnig, Javier Castellanos, Chris Mackey, who, given room to operate, finally realized their potential...
...What libertarians do is give free range to marketplace morality, which is, as Friedman explains, “whatever…interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue.” Here the Mackey-types emerge, coming from a Twilight Zone where a love of fair trade and free markets converge. Supporting fair trade coffee and hating taxes are not contradictory attitudes. When an individual buys fair trade, he voluntarily chooses to pay higher prices to support sustainable agriculture in small cooperatives in developing countries. When taxed, however, citizens are powerless to prevent corporate subsidies from being...
...fooled by the fair trade, cruelty-free exterior. Mackey has a darker, not so crunchy inside. He despises unions and prides himself on having kept them out of all 183 of his company’s stores. “Instead of embracing the notion of the ‘expanding pie’ vision of capitalism—more for everyone, or win-win,” Mackey argues, “they [unions] frequently embrace the zero-sum philosophy of win-lose.” Aware that union busting is illegal, Mackey persuaded the employees...
...them have read Ayn Rand’s novels—perhaps even briefly fell in love with Objectivism—but, like everyone else, they realized that they were being callous pricks and soon thereafter forgot about Howard Roark. Nevertheless, what is common from Milton Friedman to John Mackey is a fervent, but tempered belief in individual choice. Importantly, liberty does not have to come at the expense of society’s plunge into an anarchic abyss; few libertarians would defend the choice of an industry to discard toxic chemicals into a river...
...There is a brutal competition for the moral high ground in the marketplace; and that is where Mackey has positioned himself—at the top. Though it may seem strange, market orthodoxy and a social conscience can fit together nicely. As long as customers are allowed to vote with their dollars, virtuous companies like Whole Foods will continue to thrive, and maybe help save the world to boot...