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.
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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.
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.
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Every advertise company. I believe the world would be better if people would stop trying to sell other people stuff they don't need.
Arasaka.
Monsanto
Nestle and it's not even close.
All of them
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.
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.
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Yes.
There are a lot of extremely strong candidates, but I’m gonna go with Meta on this one.
Congress. Oh you said corporations, not their property, my bad.
Well you might not have to wait much longer.
So. Many. Choices. Not sure I can pick one.
I know everyone always says Nestlé in threads like this but what are they still doing? What damage would you save by getting rid of them?
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