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submitted 1 month 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 120 points 1 month 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 32 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 93 points 1 month ago

ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I'm no communist but I agree.

I like you a lot more than any conservative.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 month 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 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 5 points 1 month 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 44 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago
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[-] manxu@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Microsoft, Nestle, Alphabet, meta, all Elmo musk companies, Oracle, Rogers, Disney, all AI companies, all private equity companies, all gambling companies, all US health care insurrection companies

Not necessarily in order, just pick any

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Elmo musk

Good one.

[-] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago
[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago
[-] Oberyn@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

All of em ☭

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 17 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 16 points 1 month 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.

[-] friendlyghost@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month 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.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I don't think removing a corporation from existence would fix anything. We have a capitalist system killing the planet that has been extended to basically every country on the planet thanks to U.S. hegemony (which thankfully is coming to an end)

[-] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 12 points 1 month 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago
[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Black Rock,

[-] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month 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.

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month 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.

[-] SuluBeddu@feddit.it 7 points 1 month ago

Just here to add Adobe to the list

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

The Catholic Church.

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[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

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 !

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

Palantir needs to fucking go.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Nestle and it's not even close.

[-] NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago
[-] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

All of them

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