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. . . ( Father Bernard) McCoy is the self-styled chief operating monk of the abbey’s multimillion-dollar online printer-cartridge business. Four years ago, the monastery had little income, mounting debt, and steadily declining cash reserves. All members of the 900-year-old Cistercian Order are expected to work part of every day to support their abbey. As the monastery’s steward of temporal affairs, it fell to McCoy to save the brotherhood from financial ruin. His solution: dust.
The idea came to him while he was replacing the toner cartridge for the abbey’s laser printer. Peeved by the high price . . .
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/posts.html?pg=2
. . . ( Father Bernard) McCoy is the self-styled chief operating monk of the abbey’s multimillion-dollar online printer-cartridge business. Four years ago, the monastery had little income, mounting debt, and steadily declining cash reserves. All members of the 900-year-old Cistercian Order are expected to work part of every day to support their abbey. As the monastery’s steward of temporal affairs, it fell to McCoy to save the brotherhood from financial ruin. His solution: dust.
The idea came to him while he was replacing the toner cartridge for the abbey’s laser printer. Peeved by the high price . . .
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/posts.html?pg=2