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submitted 3 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 118 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 91 points 3 months ago

ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

I'm no communist but I agree.

I like you a lot more than any conservative.

[-] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

” 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.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] manxu@piefed.social 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago

If I get a single shot it's Nestle for sure.

Multiple shots? bp, shell, exxon for obvious reasons.

[-] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago
[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Except Costco and Arizona Tea

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[-] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago
[-] Oberyn@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

All of em ☭

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 16 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago

Newscorp definitely should be broken up. That fucking Australian cunt fucked everyone worldwide.

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[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago
[-] Wahots@pawb.social 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] friendlyghost@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

Chiquita and Dole basically started American military backed wars in south and Central American to exploit the land to grow fruits.

[-] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago

Oil companies dude , shit ruined the environment so many times and never even aaid sorry nor attempt to clean up their mess

[-] Lyra_Lycan 11 points 3 months ago
[-] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago
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[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 9 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Black Rock,

[-] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago

The Catholic Church.

[-] SuluBeddu@feddit.it 7 points 3 months ago

Just here to add Adobe to the list

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] hallettj@leminal.space 6 points 3 months ago

I was also thinking Nestlé before I clicked through. They want to corner the market on water. WTF!

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago

Palantir needs to fucking go.

[-] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] kyle@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Nestle and it's not even close.

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[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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