Microsoft, Nestle, Alphabet, meta, all Elmo musk companies, Oracle, Rogers, Disney, all AI companies, all private equity companies, all gambling companies, all US health care insurrection companies
Not necessarily in order, just pick any
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It's interesting that the "worst" corporations mentioned by others here do not include any media companies.
Perhaps you might contemplate why it is that they appear to be "invisible" in a discussion about damage to society.
Is it possible that the narrative around "evil companies" is told by media companies?
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Yes.
Monsanto
Nobody gonna at least honorable mention Walmart? It's been a bane on local small business from the start, but it's also been funnelling wealth out of communities.
When employees have to both live off assistance AND can only afford to ship at Walmart with their employee discount, more wealth goes to Walmart than they ever pay the employee and the community just gets poorer all the meanwhile.
Nestle and it's not even close.
Purdue Pharma and the entire Sackler family. I've witnessed so many horrible things done by Oxycontin-addicted people; knowing that history, I want to puke my guts out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#History
Societal drug abuse is indicative of so many systemic issues. It's far beyond a shame that conservatives used 'the war on drugs' to attack minorities and political dissenters and enrich pharmaceutical companies instead of focusing on the roots of the issue.
Alphabet and Meta.
They have a stranglehold on the internet that should never have been allowed to develop in the first place.
But reading the other replies I guess my kneejerk reaction is a bit egocentric. Surely others are more important because they fuck up people's lives directly, not just via the internet.
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I know everyone always says NestlΓ© in threads like this but what are they still doing? What damage would you save by getting rid of them?
Nestle is one of the largest "employers" of children on Earth. The practices they use for Chocolate farming alone are enough to vilify them permanently.
Water supplies, child slavery
I'm deleting Palantir, I think. I want Peter Thiel and his toxic ideology gone, and deleting Palantir's data and software would meaningfully set back the timeline of unlawful surveillance of the American public by our current administration.
There are a lot of extremely strong candidates, but Iβm gonna go with Meta on this one.
Maybe Goldman Sachs. Manipulation of many markets, both contributed to and profited from the 2008 crash. Which they paid a $550mil settlement for when they're like a $100bil company. Imagine making $50k a year, committing fraud ("misleading its investors") at a national scale affecting millions, and getting fined $250.
Also manipulation of gas prices, food supply/prices, insider trading, they're just the freaking worst.
Blackstone inc.
Private equity firm. Owns more than $1 trillion in residential properties. It also owns or manages around 250 property developers worldwide
Making it disappear basically solves the world wide unaffordable housing crisis.
All corporations are evil, but this one has a special place in my heart's hell. Blackstone's Invitation Homes robbed me of $3k and ruined my credit for years.
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All of em β
I don't think removing a corporation from existence would fix anything. We have a capitalist system killing the planet that has been extended to basically every country on the planet thanks to U.S. hegemony (which thankfully is coming to an end)
If I get a single shot it's Nestle for sure.
Multiple shots? bp, shell, exxon for obvious reasons.
Tyson.
Iirc, largest meat supplier. Which means they are a huge catalyst to the industry that literally profits on death and misery more than any other.
Their products are corpses, their human workers are in the industry with the highest rate of PTSD from their jobs, and by simply existing theyβre helping create superviruses by fostering cramped sheds of half-dead animals that can barely move sleeping on their own shit and being kept alive just long enough to slaughter, using powerful antibiotics that will become useless a lot faster than if we used those antibiotics to protect humans instead of giving the perfect environment for viruses to adapt to and overcome them.
Fuck the whole animal agriculture industry, and extra fuck the biggest corps behind them.
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All of the biggest ones .... no corporation should be allowed to amass so much wealth that they could literally control entire countries or regions of the world. The fact that this level of power and control exists means we value money and capital over human life or even more terribly the value of millions of human lives.
ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards All of them
Arasaka.