For me, commercial social medias: they make money by spreading hate, violence, authoritarianism and misinformation.
The system is the problem here, because it incentivizes these kinds of corporations to do these things.
So by the very nature of capitalism, all corporations.
When you have a boss “ruling over” a worker, that is just barely different than living as a serf. The difference here is you can choose your boss, but inherent in the system is that workers don’t earn the full value of their work (surplus value), otherwise it wouldn’t be worth it for the owner class to hire anyone.
Worker-owned cooperatives are pretty cool, though. Would be nice if all corporations were forced to be worker-owned.
The Sugar Industry, who lobbied and fabricated sugar into food. That’s why sugar is like tripled in nearly everything.
Gotta be the ones that gatekeep necessities for profit.
Housing, healthcare, food, and I guess internet now.
one of them is big oil. they lied about climate change.
there’s also big plastic. they lied about recycling being sustainable.
They’re the same, no?
looks like more reason to qualify as most.
cynical (/ˈsɪnɪkl/) adjective
- concerned only with one’s own interests and typically disregarding accepted standards in order to achieve them.
Technically all corporations and enterprises in a free market have to adhere to that description, by design. Corporations are fundamentally social structures built for one and one purpose only - creating value for shareholders.
Atleast on America that is by law if publicly traded. Let’s say a company discovers something that amazing, say cure for cancer and decides they are going to give it out for free for the benefit of mankind. They can be sued and will likely lose. Only real defense would be they thought the goodwill from giving away for free would earn the shareholders more money through goodwill towards the company. A smaller scale version of this would be like a farm raising animals in non-optimal conditions (for profit but nicer to the animals like free-range instead of cages). They could argue the customers will be willing to pay a premium for that.
If not publicly traded they can do whatever they want. If governmental they should have a goal or mission statement that states what their intent is(usually it’s not profit) but if it’s publically traded legally their only motive is profit to the shareholders.
Chiquita (or a parent company idc).
Among the many other bad things they did, they knowingly AND REPEATEDLY hired terrorists, and also moved the US to overthrow the Guatemalan government just for a few labor laws.
Is it even possible to get an order of magnitude more cynical than that?Nestlé. Probably.
Yep
All of them (cop out answer, but its true, you have to be ruthless to be effective.)
Video game companies. I don’t feel like I need to explain this one, but some extra shittyness to digest: less than a year after forming, the Activision QA union has filed at least 1 ULP for illegal termination
Not even the worst but I’m amazed that a company exists that actually calls themselves Banana Republic and consumers were like, yes, this is good
