Patagonia

[Drew]

Regardless of political persuasion, I admire Mr Chouinard for giving away massive wealth to stand up for his beliefs. Bravo

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/c...smid=share-url

[Diablo de Acero]

Here's another link if you can't get past NYT's paywall.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62906853

[sk_tle]

Original announcement:
https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/

[Marvinlungwitz]

I guess it will help negate Barre Seid’s donations that may fight action on climate change. (Smh on Seid’s dark money “donation”).

[SlowPokePete]

Patagonia customer for almost 40 years here.

Cheers to them!

SPP

[bcm119]

I think if most regular people were given a billion dollars, they would do exactly the same, to a charitable trust of their own choosing. This only seems noteworthy because it's so different from the behavior of the typical billionaire we hear about with pathological money-hoarding tendencies.

[72gmc]

I guess it will help negate Barre Seid’s donations that may fight action on climate change. (Smh on Seid’s dark money “donation”).

The effort to hide or not hide their respective efforts says a lot about each of them

[bcm119]

Yeah, I wasn't trying to downplay how great of a decision this was on Chouinard's part, although it came across that way. Just pointing out the relative shock value and viral aspect of this story is due to the stark contrast from what we have come to expect from billionaires.

[Marvinlungwitz]

The effort to hide or not hide their respective efforts says a lot about each of them

I could not agree more.