EXCERPT FROM JANE P. CHANCE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY ‘A LIFE APART’, 2002

AT BERKELEY WE OFTEN RUMMAGED FOR FREE FOOD AND RECYCLABLES. PRIOR TO JOINING THE CAMPUS FREEGAN ALLIANCE I WAS A VEGAN, AND HAD BEEN MY ENTIRE LIFE SINCE MOVING FROM OLYMPIA. I BEGAN EATING MEAT AS AN EXTENSION OF FREEGANISM’S IDEOLOGY OF WASTELESSNESS. HAVING WEIGHED THE MORAL IMPLICATIONS OF MEAT EATING VERSUS MEAT WASTING, I DECIDED THE LATTER WAS WORSE BECAUSE THE ANIMAL WERE TO HAVE DIED IN VAIN IF NOT CONSUMED. I EXTENDED THIS METHODOLOGY TO ALL THAT I FOUND IN THE DUMPSTERS, INCLUDING LITERATURE. SOON I FOUND MYSELF READING WALTER ISAACSON’S BOOK ABOUT THE LIFE OF STEVE JOBS AND WAS STRUCK BY HIS RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF USER-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY. I SUPPOSE YOU COULD SAY THIS DISCOVERY IS WHAT MADE ME A CAPITALIST. I SUPPOSE YOU COULD SAY THIS IS WHAT LEAD ME TO FOUNDING GOOGLE., 2013

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