The worst corp I can think of is Nestlé, these pieces of shit have done a lot of environmental damage and have been known to engage or complicit in slavery.
Erasing Nestlé is like erasing the infectious boil on a human body.
What foul company would you erase for good and why?
with the exception of some mom and pop cornershops, some state owned corporations and almost all worker-owned cooperatives, pretty much all of them can go. but i’d start with palantir.
News corp. They’re the single most effective driver of fascist influence in the 21st century among the politically passive part of the population. Everything that all these other companies do is underpinned by News Corp outlets like Fox, The Sun, etc. justifying, equivocating, scapegoating and propagandising.
Koch Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch,_Inc.
No one can touch them
Except Costco and Arizona Tea
Black Rock,
I wanted to say Meta but reading things like Nestlé reminded me there are other companies that are equally as bad.
Now I wonder if Nestlé can be considered more evil than Meta because Meta influences the population on such a low level that it affects everyone.
Thanks to those fuckheads at Meta (not the devs trying to make a living) Any developed country went so far right it’s almost unbelievable how fast it turned.Why do people only hit the nail on Nestle? Yes yes I do agree they are bad and need to disapear…
But haven’t you all heard about CocaCola? Who destroyed whole villages’ water source? Whole ecosystems to produce enough space to grow their ingredients?
CocaCola is probably as evil as Nestle, they are on the same level of evilness !
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.
What’s an invitation home? Can you elaborate? We want to get a home someday, but I’m not aware of all the nuances yet.
It’s a shell corp they use to buy up all the residential housing in cities across the US, and with a nice name like Invitation Homes who would ever guess that they’re a multinational conglomerate? As long as you’re not renting you should be fine other than the fact that corporate rentals, ‘investment properties’, and Airbnb have cannibalized the housing market. Good luck.
Oil companies dude , shit ruined the environment so many times and never even aaid sorry nor attempt to clean up their mess
I did think of Nestle as well, and another one, Tata. They’re infamous for stealing land belonging to indigenous people in India. In 2006, the state police of the Orissa government shot 12 people, including a child, in a crowd protesting state-sponsored land grabbing. https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/asa200012007en.pdf
The most iron-rich part of India, Bastar, is also the poorest, and with the most number of Maoist militias. This is no coincidence. Tribal people make up only 9% of the country’s population, but more than 40% of the land used to build ‘development’ projects belonged originally to them. The most mineral rich areas in India, and the world, are some of the poorest because the industries are not publicly owned.
To be honest, I can think of much, much worse. Union Carbide, Adani, Aveo, which was funding a drug epidemic in Nigeria, they’re all bad. There’s no good capitalist.
ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards I’m no communist but I agree.
I like you a lot more than any conservative.
It’s not corporations function to be ethical. Their function is to make the biggest profit possible and they will be evil as fuck, if there are no repercussions.
Corporations need to be constrained by law and oversight. Current trend is the opposite and we will be creating monsters to lead our future AI powered oligarchies.
Even corporations that are cooperatives? Municipalities are corporations (in my country). Are they bastards? How about corporations that are wholly government owned? The USSR was full of those.
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” should make it obvious what kinds of corporations I’m talking about: the kinds that are privately owned, including the ones on so-called “public” stock exchanges.
Pretty much anything over 10,000 employees. You can’t really organise that many people in a productive way. Let’s face it… You’re exploiting something.
I mean, all that are privately owned. A system that puts profit above all else will never have any corporation that acts ethically and in the interest of society.
But I also wanna mention, Nestlé isn’t a particularly evil corporation. It’s just the only food corporation where we know these things they’ve been up to but you can be damn sure the others aren’t any better.
Nestle is pretty particarly evil.
I’d argue the publicly owned ones are actually the bigger problems. At least with privately owned ones there’s usually a single individual or small group of individuals that can be influenced threatened and held accountable, or what passes for accountability these days. With publicly own companies though there’s this concept of the nebulous shareholder. There’s such a wide range of people who own the shares of the company that they are untouchable yet at the same time completely ignorable. Companies don’t have to answer to the shareholders because the shareholders don’t feel involved enough or care enough to actually speak out. Instead it’s the concept of the shareholder. Which is actually more dangerous. That anonymity makes it a more brutal and ravenous concept. Private companies are able to think more long term because the private owner is able to think long-term, or longer rather, where is publicly owned companies that Anonymous shareholder concept requires constant unending and immediate growth. Which is a cancerous concept. For society and the planet both.
Not that either is good of course, just that one’s more dangerous. Also Nestle is very very evil, publicly owned by the way.
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.
I imagine Amazon has for more influence than Meta do to AWS, could be wrong though.
Amazon controls corpos.
Meta controls the general population (FB: Mostly older gen, Insta: Both young and old, WA: Also both). They control the political voice which is IMO more important if you consider voices more important than subtle (or not so) lobbying.Don’t they (amazon) control the general population by proxy then?
I’d say Meta has more general population control with FB and Insta.
AWS/Amazon is more corporate focused and only in the shadows for the general population.
Short term I rather see Meta being able to manipulate rather than Amazon.
That makes sense.
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.
