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Ethics Conflict! Starbucks Edition
January 30, 2005 ( politics )
Yikes! My personal grief about my position on Starbucks is now even more off-kilter! I've always respected their internal HR -- they give their employees excellent benefits, even at just-over-part-time. But they aggresively go after local coffee shops (there's a new Starbucks going in in Austin up the road from Amy's-Guadalupe and across the street from Tazza Fresca, sure to be packed next XMas by yuppies in their SUVs trying to be cool by cruising down 37th street, but I digress).
Every Starbucks coffee cup will soon carry this on it:
Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools. America's national debt is now $7.5 trillion, and it's skyrocketing, even as America's population ages. There will never be a better time to start paying off this crippling debt than today.
More by the author of the quote, and info on the "The Way I See It" coffee cups at (twitch) Starbucks.com
(I'm posting this from Mojo's Daily Grind, btw)
Posted by griffjon at January 30, 2005 10:09 PM
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