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I just finished reading How Can I Keep From Singing: The Ballad of Pete Seeger . . . it's an updated (2008) version of a biography by David King Dunaway first published in 1981 . . . the updates include a lot of input from Pete, who also wrote a Foreward . . . among the many gems in the book was this passage, which I thought I'd pass along . . .
A friend of Seeger's, Oren Lyons, of the Onondaga tribe in upstate New York, once attended a World Economic Conference in Switzerland. There he met the CEOs of billion-dollar corporations. "I asked them," said Lyons, "if the realized that the way they were using up the world's resources, in a sense they were headed for a brick wall.
"They said to me: 'Yes, Mr. Lyons, of course we realize that, but you should realize that we have been put in our jobs to make as much money as we can for our stock holders. If we don't do that we're out of a job.'
"I asked, 'Are any of you grandfathers?' And a number of them readily said yes.
"I then asked them, 'When do you stop being a CEO and start being a grandfather?'"
when indeed . . .
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