What corporation would you want gone COMPELTELY?
What corporation would you want gone COMPELTELY?
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?
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.
ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards I'm no communist but I agree.
I like you a lot more than any conservative.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 they’re 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.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/tyson-foods-toxic-pollutants-lakes-rivers
Don't forget the massive amounts of toxic dumping they engage in, which to the best of my knowledge, has not been remediated.
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.
If I get a single shot it's Nestle for sure.
Multiple shots? bp, shell, exxon for obvious reasons.
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.
Blackrock.
Except Costco and Arizona Tea
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
All of em ☭
Meta
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?
Newscorp definitely should be broken up. That fucking Australian cunt fucked everyone worldwide.
Media companies are disappearing already.
They're being propped up by the government,
so they're more or less state-owned already.
Chiquita and Dole basically started American military backed wars in south and Central American to exploit the land to grow fruits.
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.Nestle, Shell, BP, prager U, PayPal (interac please), Uline, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, that dollar store brand.
All of these have destroyed the environment, destroyed our democracy, or destroyed our small cities and towns.
Oil companies dude , shit ruined the environment so many times and never even aaid sorry nor attempt to clean up their mess
Yes.
Altruistically? Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia. Help climate change and cripple Putin's war machine in one go.
For me? Central Square, purveyors of shitty enterprise software.
Koch Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch,_Inc.
No one can touch them
Your link is slightly broken. (The dot should be part of the URL, not plaintext)
All of them. Limit the size, ban acquisitions. Break up monopolies. They've never been good for everyone and just become exploitative.
See Dutch East India company, the worst of the lot who was a corporation that had their own military. Learn from history so mistakes are not repeated again.
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.
Black Rock,
The Catholic Church.
Just here to add Adobe to the list
So angry at Nestle and the time they killed all those African babies doesn't even hit your highlight reel. I agree- we can do without Nestle.
I was also thinking Nestlé before I clicked through. They want to corner the market on water. WTF!
Arasaka.
Palantir needs to fucking go.
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.
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.
Nestle and it's not even close.
Google
Google
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.
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.
Microsoft...
Embrace Extend and Extinguish is a masterpeace idea created by them.
Lots of Lobbyism and political people working for Microsoft managed to change an entire city to switch the OS even though everyone was for keeping it how it is. Additionally sending government emails to places to enforce the usage of Windows, while in reality, those were people working for Microsoft and abusing their Political email address.
They are so fucked up on the capitalism game. Also MSN is a huge lie because it only> exists for Propaganda... but its like every news page tbh...n
Every advertise company. I believe the world would be better if people would stop trying to sell other people stuff they don't need.
Corecivic
There are a lot of extremely strong candidates, but I’m gonna go with Meta on this one.
Yes.
So. Many. Choices. Not sure I can pick one.
Congress. Oh you said corporations, not their property, my bad.
Well you might not have to wait much longer.
Amazon
All of them that don't have workplace democracy, and that have a leadership.
Church.
Dow chemical; lack of progress be damned, not being poisoned en masse would be amazing for the human race. Honestly nestle would have been my first choice but you got me thinking.