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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.
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.
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.
Microsoft...
Embrace Extend and Extinguish is a masterpeace idea created by them.
Lots of Lobbyism and political people working for Microsoft managed to change an entire city to switch the OS even though everyone was for keeping it how it is. Additionally sending government emails to places to enforce the usage of Windows, while in reality, those were people working for Microsoft and abusing their Political email address.
They are so fucked up on the capitalism game. Also MSN is a huge lie because it only> exists for Propaganda... but its like every news page tbh...n
Corecivic
Yes.
There are a lot of extremely strong candidates, but I’m gonna go with Meta on this one.
Every advertise company. I believe the world would be better if people would stop trying to sell other people stuff they don't need.
So. Many. Choices. Not sure I can pick one.
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.
Nestle is pretty particarly evil.
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.
Congress. Oh you said corporations, not their property, my bad.
Well you might not have to wait much longer.
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?
Amazon
All of them that don't have workplace democracy, and that have a leadership.
Church.
Dow chemical; lack of progress be damned, not being poisoned en masse would be amazing for the human race. Honestly nestle would have been my first choice but you got me thinking.