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Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death

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The Importance of Honoring the Wages of the Dead

Milton Hershey was the founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company and his wife, Catherine. He gave pretty much all of his property to a trust to create a school for poor white male orphans. But there was one feature of Hershey's trust that was not only unique for its time, it's unique even now. The guardians of the boys had to sign an indenture, which allowed Hershey to return them if they violated behavior codes.

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