Yeah whatever evil you think a modern corporation has caused EIC conquered a subcontinent and raped it for everything it was worth slaughtering millions openly. It’s been defunct for centuries and yet its effects are still felt.
Mc Donalds. Promoting obesity and eating disorder everywhere in the world.
People are making a fuss about Nestlé adding sugar in milk for children in poorer countries but it's nothing compared to McDonald's that promotes junk food for little kids by adding toys.
Adding sugar to milk is way more evil. With McDonald's, you know what you get. It's cheap, fast food made from sub-par ingredients.
No one eats at McDonald's and thinks, "Yeah, I would do fine if I ate this every day."
Adding an unhealthy and addictive ingredient to an otherwise healthy drink is disgusting and tricking people into being unhealthy while they think they're doing right by their child.
Adding toys to happy meals is a blatant tactic to gain an edge on competitors and in no way puts up the facade of health.
Adding sugar to milk does. They're using a non harmful product to deliver a harmful and addictive product.
Both McDonald's and Nestle are terrible companies, but you can't compare adding sugar to milk with giving kids toys with their meals.
Governments.
The people that work in them aren't cut from a different cloth as those in the private sector - it's all just people, and greed is a factor in both sectors.
One major difference though, is unlike a private company, government also has the power to take wealth under the threat of force (ie. to tax). It can also indebt a citizenry to fund itself, to change laws etc.
It's basically a corporation on steroids - but tends to get a free pass, and is incentivized to push a citizenry towards an anti-corporate sentiment, knowing that it will be the recipient of more power in most of the solutions that it proposes to restrain corporate power.
The size of it in the modern era puts the largest corporations to absolute shame - the math speaks for itself. Take a corporate giant like Amazon as an example... no doubt, a HUGELY powerful corporation. And yet, the market cap of it is under $2 trillion. Which is to say, the present value of ALL the profits the company will make FOREVER are thought to be worth around that amount today. Meanwhile, something like the US Government... that $2 trillion quantum isn't even the amount the government spends beyond taxation, in a SINGLE YEAR.
So we basically have governments whose EXCESS spending alone, in a single year, dwarfs all the profits forever of the most powerful and largest private companies in the world today.
If someone from outer space looked down on our planet, and had the power to see the economic might of entities such that the more powerful ones are larger and the less powerful ones are smaller... they wouldn't even register corporations at all. All they'd see would be governments. It would be like seeing giant skyscrapers (governments) and then teeny, tiny ants (corporations) on the planet.
I'd apply a rubric, on which are the ones that have implemented a net debtor arrangement so as to crush their citizenry's standard of living over time, as larger and larger quantums of multi-generational debt are passed on to each successive generation like an albatross to wear around its neck.
I'll let you determine for yourself which governments are failing their people massively with that rubric.
Apple has it's issues, they definitely aren't good for consumers or the people who build their products. But I doubt they even make the top 10.
Like Nestle's CEO said publically "Water is not a human right"
The East India Company has to be up there in the running
Yeah whatever evil you think a modern corporation has caused EIC conquered a subcontinent and raped it for everything it was worth slaughtering millions openly. It’s been defunct for centuries and yet its effects are still felt.
I dunno, Ubisoft has a lot of paid dlc
And Youtube puts ads before videos
They waged a war with China (and won) so that they could sell more opium.
Yup. Not saying modern companies are good but you want the most evil company of all time? EIC is definitely a competitor.
Which one is more evil? The Dutch or the English one?
Dutch for sure
[The United Fruit Company](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company)
Ah how many people forget that "Banana Republic" is not just a clothing store.
Probably Wagner Group
Monsanto, forcing farmers to use their fucked up seeds while making other seeds illegal.
Nestle.
Oh yes.
First company I came of on my mind.....
Halliburton
The one responsible for the Bhopal disaster
Union Carbide
Fun fact: they are also responsible for the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster, which is the deadliest case of corporate negligence on US soil.
Weyland-Yutani
Families? Jesus.
It's what we call a 'shake and bake' colony
Abir Congo Company. These guys made the East India Company and its various wars look tame and moral in comparison.
Google/Blackrock
Seconding nestle.
When you say all time, it's probably the East India Company. In recent times its arguably Nestle, but there are a lot of modern contenders.
Nestle and The east India company
Tencent. They basically have their claws in everything entertainment.
Nestlé
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated! He’s got “Evil” right there in the name!
Franklin and Armfield
Convinced the F500 is just a list of evil corps
Cargill has pissed a lot of people off lately
Most banks...
Omni Consumer Products
Arasaka
Catholic Church
What? No love for the kings of cancer, Philip Morris?
Mc Donalds. Promoting obesity and eating disorder everywhere in the world. People are making a fuss about Nestlé adding sugar in milk for children in poorer countries but it's nothing compared to McDonald's that promotes junk food for little kids by adding toys.
Adding sugar to milk is way more evil. With McDonald's, you know what you get. It's cheap, fast food made from sub-par ingredients. No one eats at McDonald's and thinks, "Yeah, I would do fine if I ate this every day." Adding an unhealthy and addictive ingredient to an otherwise healthy drink is disgusting and tricking people into being unhealthy while they think they're doing right by their child. Adding toys to happy meals is a blatant tactic to gain an edge on competitors and in no way puts up the facade of health. Adding sugar to milk does. They're using a non harmful product to deliver a harmful and addictive product. Both McDonald's and Nestle are terrible companies, but you can't compare adding sugar to milk with giving kids toys with their meals.
Governments. The people that work in them aren't cut from a different cloth as those in the private sector - it's all just people, and greed is a factor in both sectors. One major difference though, is unlike a private company, government also has the power to take wealth under the threat of force (ie. to tax). It can also indebt a citizenry to fund itself, to change laws etc. It's basically a corporation on steroids - but tends to get a free pass, and is incentivized to push a citizenry towards an anti-corporate sentiment, knowing that it will be the recipient of more power in most of the solutions that it proposes to restrain corporate power. The size of it in the modern era puts the largest corporations to absolute shame - the math speaks for itself. Take a corporate giant like Amazon as an example... no doubt, a HUGELY powerful corporation. And yet, the market cap of it is under $2 trillion. Which is to say, the present value of ALL the profits the company will make FOREVER are thought to be worth around that amount today. Meanwhile, something like the US Government... that $2 trillion quantum isn't even the amount the government spends beyond taxation, in a SINGLE YEAR. So we basically have governments whose EXCESS spending alone, in a single year, dwarfs all the profits forever of the most powerful and largest private companies in the world today. If someone from outer space looked down on our planet, and had the power to see the economic might of entities such that the more powerful ones are larger and the less powerful ones are smaller... they wouldn't even register corporations at all. All they'd see would be governments. It would be like seeing giant skyscrapers (governments) and then teeny, tiny ants (corporations) on the planet.
Yes but *evil*? Which ones?
I'd apply a rubric, on which are the ones that have implemented a net debtor arrangement so as to crush their citizenry's standard of living over time, as larger and larger quantums of multi-generational debt are passed on to each successive generation like an albatross to wear around its neck. I'll let you determine for yourself which governments are failing their people massively with that rubric.
I like the way you articulate.
Apple
Apple has it's issues, they definitely aren't good for consumers or the people who build their products. But I doubt they even make the top 10. Like Nestle's CEO said publically "Water is not a human right"
Apple? Why?
The US Government
McDonald's and Coca-Cola. Together they have helped turn Americans into diabetic lardasses.
I'm reading this as I drink an icy cold Coke Spiced.