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Ben Cohen

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624 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

We don't have any money.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

The the.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

The national debt is trillions and trillions of dollars.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

We can't afford anything.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

We can't afford to take care of people.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

And then all of a sudden, Trump decides that, well, I can scrape up another $500 billion, and the only thing he can think of to do with it

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

is to dump it on the Department of War.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I mean, that is such a huge amount of money.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You know, none of us can conceive of these huge numbers, but I mean, it's enough to provide childcare for everybody in the US.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

It's enough to build millions of units of affordable housing.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

It's enough to fund our schools that are in bad shape.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

you could do things that really affect people's lives.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

And he's deciding to affect people's lives by preparing to kill millions of more people.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

Lead poisoning is for life.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

There's no cure for it.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

There's nothing you can do about it.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

And it kind of affects your brain.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

It makes it so that your brain doesn't function as well.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You know, some expert said that

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

If you wanted to put something into a population to keep them down for generations and generations, it would be lead.