Ben Cohen

That's their major business, is providing us with these little pieces of brownies that we put into the ice cream.

I say what you get, the end result,

is a world where all the money is at the very, very top, the top 1%.

And the society only serves that top 1%.

You know, the reality today is that business has become the most powerful force in our society.

Originally, the most powerful force was religion.

And then the most powerful force came to be government, nation states.

And today it's business.

But the big difference is that those former most powerful forces had as their purpose to serve the benefit of the community.

That's what religion is about.

That's what government is supposed to be about.

But business never had that as its purpose.

So business is now the most powerful force and it operates only in its narrow self-interest.

without a concern for the effect on the society as a whole.

I say it's not enough.

I say that's not the only way that you can run a business.

You know, most people are buying products from businesses in spite of the values of the business.

They don't really like corporations because they know that corporations only care about one thing, which is maximizing profits.

So people have a lot more concerns than just getting a pair of sneakers overnight.

And they care about social issues.