With a return visit to Whole Foods I had an energized conversation with several of the checkout people. Ever loyal, they defended Mr. Mackey. Of course they did. After all who the hell am I?
Personnel in shorts with a teasing tongue.

But what few know is that A Whole Food was a restaurant and SaferWay was a food buying commune. Do you think Mr. Mackey knew? Yep so do I. But then his company is only a distributor. They select and sell. Although some would say that has only a brand name value. In that case his theft is complete.

but this is the way of capital and ideas. Theft is okay. You can’t steal from someone who wants to change the world. You can’t steal from someone who makes new ideas and introduces them into the world. Or so say the disciples.

It’s easy to steal from those who want to make a better world. Make big changes not just profit.

So that is what Mr. Mackey learned. That is what any good capitalist is supposed to do. Profit from someone else’s ideas. Use their idealism for your better world.

Arbeit macht frei (“work makes you free”).
Jedem das Seine (literally “to each his own”)

Cast iron signs over your head as you enter the final solution.
The Nazis loved phrases. They were a communication power house. The irony of the wrought iron grill wasn’t lost on many of the educated that entered the camps of Auschwitz or Buchenwald.

I doubt that you know anyone from then or their. I knew only one person who had survived. I knew that only because of the tattoo on his arm. I think I told him once what I though it was. He never talked about it. By now he must have died. I hope that Max had a better life. That he got much more than what he deserved. That at last his life was set free. I hope all that while doubting it.

You may escape, but you will never be free. War takes or kills, forever, until your end.