Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?
Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn’t an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with
thousandsten fucking thousandofAIDS needles.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg
The fuck man
And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices
Thanks, I fixed my post
‘moral issues above profit’ … yeah, I can’t believe that of all things is an issue
They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!
Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? 😉
Because by 1944 they used around 4500 forced labourers (foreigners, POWs) in dangerous condition. Oh, and they apparently bought 170 female prisoners, who then all died during some experiment:
A Bayer employee wrote to Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz commandant: “The transport of 150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain conclusive results because they died during the experiments. We would kindly request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the same price.”
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#World_War_II_and_the_Holocaust
I was actually thinking of Norm Macdonald’s catchphrase “the more I hear about that Hitler fellow, the less I like him!” but yeah, that’s heinous as fuck too 😬
Hah, poor guy, because I never heard of him before, and he was mentioned in the same breath as Hitler, I thought he has to be some pretty shady dude, but otherwise ignored that part :D
Quite the opposite, actually: he was a great comedian known for his deadpan delivery of the most outrageous things 😁
Here he is affably roasting the fuck out of people 😄
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Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.
They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.
Jesus. Straight to the top
Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.
Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.
Does it work as cough medicine at all?
As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.
Presumably
Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.
MASS ATROCITIES!
They are the Bug Bad Evil in my pirate themed DnD campaign. Or a proxy of them at least. What better justification for becoming a pirate than them? To quote a real pirate captain from the 1700, “They rob the poor under cover of law, we plunder the rich under the cover of our own courage.”
That’s a 10/10 quote
And no. 2 is The British East India Company
Yea I probably got them mixed up. The British one is what I meant. It’s probably number 1?
No lol you are right, the Dutch one was worse
came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I’d be pointing at them.
Ok so Nestle for child murder, Bayer for AIDs blood, Union Carbide for Bhopal disaster and its parent Dow Chemical for Agent Orange (Monsanto too).
IBM for helping the Nazis with concentration camps and Degesch for Zyclon B. United Fruit Company and Dutch & British East India Companies for colonization, also everyone that was shipping rubber out of the Belgian Congo.
Everyone who makes landmines, cluster bombs, etc.
I think when this question is asked in 100 years Palantir is going to feature.
So many to choose from…
My pick would be Bank of America for their illegal foreclosure practices which have ruined many families’ lives, and especially for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis which destabilized the entire global economy and which we are still trying to recover from. Everyone on the entire planet was impacted by the Great Recession.
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Unquestionably, the Dutch East India Company
This is the answer, hands down.
Please take my upvote.
What about the South Sea Company?
United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala
20th century East India Company.
Nestlé!
Nestlé is responsible for misleading African mothers into thinking formula is better than their own breast milk. They lied to expectant mothers just to sell formula.
Was a golden strategy though, give young mothers just enough formula to “try out” so they stop producing milk themselves and now they have to buy their formula. How could there be anything wrong with that? /s
Google
They made private data the „new gold“ which it is today long before social media started exploiting it. Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…
Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…
It’s still in their code of conduct, though.
Only as a joke.
All fossil fuel companies, for fucking up the climate without a hint of remorse.
Legalized drug companies: alcohol, tobacco, coffee. Tobacco and alcohol companies have been more or less reigned in by all kinds of regulations, but big coffee is still roaming free out there.
Even though Nestle and others are bad as well, I think they’re not quite in the same level of evil as the previous ones.
What’s so bad about coffee? If you don’t drink too much its not that bad right?
I guess that applies to alcohol as well.
The exploitation that comes with it
Right that makes sense. I don’t know how much faith to put in fair trade labels but they’re probably not all bad.
Dutch East India Company or VOC for sure.
Well yeah that’s in a class of its own, for sure.
Chiquita bananas. They literally stole entire south/central American countries and used death squads and the CIA to enslave the workers and kill them when they asked for such unreasonable demands like being paid in actual currency
Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.
As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don’t understand how the name of the store ever took off
Don’t forget Dole. They caused the annexation is Hawai’i.
Both have paid terrorist organizations in the last couple decades.
And we’ll never even get to know what the Gros Miguel Banana tasted like!
It tastes like the marshmallow banana candies/“fake” banana flavouring
I’m sure there are worse, and it’s not one company, but the companies that provide malware to dictatorships are pretty bad, and western countries are sheltering them/not doing much about them.
Examples:
- NSO Group (Pegasus)
- HackingTeam
- Gamma/Lench/Vilicius (FinFisher)
Pegasus is bad news.
Nice! I didn’t even consider digital terrorism
That’s the problem, really. Numerous companies do unspeakable evil, which makes it very difficult to name and shame any one of them.
Right. Corporations aren’t the problem, they’re just a symptom of the real problem. Even though they’re evil, they’re just a product of their environment. The “good” corporations aren’t profitable and go out of business.
I don’t know if there’s a phrase in english for it, but in slovak we say a fish stinks from the head, basically meaning company is whatever the very top managers are like.
We have “a fish rots from the head down”, so very similar.
That’s a good idiom, I like it.
Saudi Aramco or ExxonMobil
Fun fact. Saudi Aramco got hit with malware that took down basically their entire computer system. The hackers then demanded $50m in ransom.
The virus was used for cyberwarfare[4] against national oil companies including Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Aramco and Qatar’s RasGas.[5][2][6] A group named “Cutting Sword of Justice” claimed responsibility for an attack on 30,000 Saudi Aramco workstations, causing the company to spend more than a week restoring their services.[7]
