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Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn’t an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with
thousandsten fucking thousandofAIDS needles.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg
And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices
Thanks, I fixed my post
‘moral issues above profit’ … yeah, I can’t believe that of all things is an issue
The fuck man
They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!
Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? 😉
Because by 1944 they used around 4500 forced labourers (foreigners, POWs) in dangerous condition. Oh, and they apparently bought 170 female prisoners, who then all died during some experiment:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#World_War_II_and_the_Holocaust
I was actually thinking of Norm Macdonald’s catchphrase “the more I hear about that Hitler fellow, the less I like him!” but yeah, that’s heinous as fuck too 😬
Hah, poor guy, because I never heard of him before, and he was mentioned in the same breath as Hitler, I thought he has to be some pretty shady dude, but otherwise ignored that part :D
Quite the opposite, actually: he was a great comedian known for his deadpan delivery of the most outrageous things 😁
Here he is affably roasting the fuck out of people 😄
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Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.
They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.
Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.
Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.
Does it work as cough medicine at all?
As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.
Presumably
Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.
MASS ATROCITIES!
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.”
That’s a 10/10 quote
And no. 2 is The British East India Company
Yea I probably got them mixed up. The British one is what I meant. It’s probably number 1?
No lol you are right, the Dutch one was worse
came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I’d be pointing at them.
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.
So many to choose from…
DuPont Chemical?
Wells Fargo?
Wal-Mart?
Coca-Cola?
My pick would be Bank of America for their illegal foreclosure practices which have ruined many families’ lives, and especially for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis which destabilized the entire global economy and which we are still trying to recover from. Everyone on the entire planet was impacted by the Great Recession.
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Unquestionably, the Dutch East India Company
United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala
20th century East India Company.
Nestlé!
Nestlé is responsible for misleading African mothers into thinking formula is better than their own breast milk. They lied to expectant mothers just to sell formula.
Was a golden strategy though, give young mothers just enough formula to “try out” so they stop producing milk themselves and now they have to buy their formula. How could there be anything wrong with that? /s
The East India Company.
Please take my upvote.
This is the answer, hands down.
All fossil fuel companies, for fucking up the climate without a hint of remorse.
Legalized drug companies: alcohol, tobacco, coffee. Tobacco and alcohol companies have been more or less reigned in by all kinds of regulations, but big coffee is still roaming free out there.
Even though Nestle and others are bad as well, I think they’re not quite in the same level of evil as the previous ones.
What’s so bad about coffee? If you don’t drink too much its not that bad right?
I guess that applies to alcohol as well.
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
Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.
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
And we’ll never even get to know what the Gros Miguel Banana tasted like!
It tastes like the marshmallow banana candies/“fake” banana flavouring
I’m sure there are worse, and it’s not one company, but the companies that provide malware to dictatorships are pretty bad, and western countries are sheltering them/not doing much about them.
Examples:
Pegasus is bad news.
Nice! I didn’t even consider digital terrorism
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…
It’s still in their code of conduct, though.
Only as a joke.
Dutch East India Company or VOC for sure.
Saudi Aramco or ExxonMobil
Fun fact. Saudi Aramco got hit with malware that took down basically their entire computer system. The hackers then demanded $50m in ransom.
I’m guessing it would some of the big companies of colonial times, like the British East or Dutch India Companies.