He Overheard His Housekeeper Ask Her Mother for $28 for Baby Formula — Following Her Home Uncovered What His Company Had Buried
That was not heroism.
It was the minimum a decent person owed, arriving years too late.
He would not let it be dressed up as salvation.
He thought a great deal, in those weeks, about why the savior story was so eager to tell itself, and why it mattered so much to refuse it, and he arrived at an answer that unsettled him about the whole culture he had come from.
The savior story was comfortable for wealthy people because it flattered the very system that had caused the harm.
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