"Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist" - Ben & Jerry’s Founder SLAMS The Rich, Capitalism & Corporate Greed | PBD Podcast | Ep. 560

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4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, joins Patrick Bet-David to discuss his journey from ice cream mogul to activist.

Once a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter, Cohen now backs Elon Musk’s DOGE, challenging big government waste. In this fiery exchange, capitalism vs. socialism takes center stage as Cohen rethinks his stance on government.

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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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0:00.0	Ben and Jerry's ice cream. I get out my pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
0:03.8	Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's.
0:05.8	Ben and Jerry's.
0:06.8	One of the best business stories we've had on America guys.
0:11.4	How do you, who has made as money as a capitalist, support a socialist?
0:16.2	Poor people are getting screwed.
0:18.1	We shouldn't be in a country where you work 40 hours a week full time
0:22.4	and you can't afford to have a decent life. That should be illegal. Do you really want to go there?
0:27.7	It's not going to be good if you really want to go there. Hey, speaking of ice cream, you got a spoon?
0:34.4	Good shit, isn't it? I've never had dirty. Yeah, pass it over. This is ridiculous. After this,
0:40.6	ice cream, I'm a socialist. If voting for Bernie was an option, he would have won. I don't need that
0:46.3	much money. I can tell you that. I'm part of it, but I'm, I'm against it. Ben, what a capitalist
0:53.0	you are, though.
0:57.5	You know, you're a good consumer.
1:02.3	We would classify you as a heavy user, and we appreciate people like you.
1:04.4	I don't think we could be the number one.
1:07.6	But please tell me you're joking right now that you didn't know your number one.
1:13.5	You built the number one ice cream company in America.
1:17.4	I think that there's a form of capitalism that works well.
1:21.8	How can you one minute say the government wastes money and next minute say let's pay more money because we think they can do a better job with it?
1:46.6	Okay. They're so confused right now. They're so confused right now. They're about to have a drink right now. That's a, that's a confusing. You just confuse the shit out of it. Did you ever think you would make it?
1:50.1	I feel I'm supposed to take sweet bit of dirty.
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