Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

    • jossbo@lemmy.ml
      44·
      1 year ago

      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.”

    • mohKohn@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I’d be pointing at them.

  • livus@kbin.social
    79·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • small44@lemmy.world
    56·
    1 year ago

    United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala

  • ZuriMuri@discuss.tchncs.de
    326·
    1 year ago

    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…

    • hardypart@feddit.de
      181·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
    22·
    1 year ago

    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

      • JGrffn@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        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

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Don’t forget Dole. They caused the annexation is Hawai’i.

      Both have paid terrorist organizations in the last couple decades.

    • orcaA
      5·
      1 year ago

      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]

    • ArtieShaw@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      It really is just a matter of scale. I’ve known some evil little fuckers, but they lack the resources to commit full scale atrocities. They’re not employing children in hazardous conditions or selling tainted blood, but that’s only because they don’t have access to a steady supply of either.

      The ethics is actually very simple. Taking those two examples:

      Kids love to work if you just give them the chance. What kid wouldn’t want to go and show how they can do grownup things and at the same time make money to help their family survive? It happens all the time with family businesses. Just because I’m a wage slave means my kids can’t contribute? What kind of elitist bullshit is that?

      The rest is just regulations meant to strangle the small businessman. You’ve got some pencil neck in an office somewhere who wants to stop LIFE SAVING MEDICATION from getting to people who need it. Bitter little fuck cares more about swinging his dick around and writing “laws” than actually helping people. Most of that blood is perfectly fine but the paperwork got fucked up and sure - maybe some isn’t fine - but if you ask the guy bleeding out from a stab wound if he wants some, he’ll say “YES!” In any case, malaria will probably get the poor fucker before the AIDS does. And he probably already has the HIV anyway.

      /s for those last two paragraphs because it’s not an argument that I’d make, but it very much is a parallel to arguments that I’ve seen being made in real life by seemingly normal people.

      And then of course people tend to operate on a spectrum of
      *literally does not care
      *only cares if it’s happening to me
      *only cares if someone else finds out (because then I’ll have to pretend I never noticed)
      *cares, but not enough to lose my livelihood over it
      *cares, but is really good about not thinking too hard and/or focusing on all the nice things instead of the things that probably aren’t even all that bad
      *will think about quitting, but realizes that they other guys are just as bad (or worse)
      *will quit and go live in a cave