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Originally Posted by worthless wage slave

If you look at the history of Ben & Jerry’s, you always had noble goals: You wanted to keep control of the company. You wanted the highest-paid employee to never make more than five times that of the lowest-paid employee. You didn’t want to keep growing for the sake of growth. And yet you had to sell the company, that pay ratio wasn’t maintained and the company just kept growing.

Ben & Jerry’s had reported sales of $681.5 million in 2019. In 2000, when the company was sold to Unilever, its sales were a reported $237 million. What does that show us about how capitalism can subsume good intentions?

Originally Posted by Ben Cohen, net worth ~150m

The end result of capitalism is not unlike a Monopoly game. One guy gets all the bucks, and everybody else loses. What we have in America is a democracy that’s run for the benefit of corporations. That’s a disaster. We’re looking at it, we’re living it and it continues to get worse. Does that answer your question?

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