[wpietri]

Yes. There's none of this maximize-shareholder-value, church-of-the-mba religion that pervades Western business culture right now.

He wanted to serve people sustainably. He did it for decades, and when that became untenable, he responsibly searched for a way to minimize the waste and harm caused by him exiting the business.

I especially love that he treats his machines almost as people, people intrinsically valuable to him. Whereas here, we often treat our people as machines, machines that are eternally disposable.