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When families inherit businesses that conflict with their values

My siblings and I inherited our parents' small business and we're split on whether to keep running it the way they did - which was profitable but involved some practices we're uncomfortable with - or change it to align with our values even though that might mean less money for all our families.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're grappling with how to honor your parents' legacy while staying true to your own understanding of right livelihood, complicated by everyone's different financial needs and emotional attachments.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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