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Planet Money

CHAPTER

The Shadowy Ice Cream Barter Economy

Each Ben and Jerry's employee is allowed to take home three free pints of ice cream every single workday. If each employee were to take full advantage of their allotment across the whole company, it would come out to over 1,500 pints a day. The majority of pints given to employees are what the company calls "seconds," which means happy little factory accidents.

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