What are the most cynical corporations that currently exist? : asklemmy

[+] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yep

[+] silverhand@reddthat.com 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Name a company that wouldn't do it too if they'd get away with it. Not saying they're not pieces of garbage, but it's the system itself that's rotten from within

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not rotten but working exactly as intended. The problem is precisely the intention.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah you're right. Might've worded suboptimal. Working as intended, yet disgusting to the core. Better? :-)

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Yes :)

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 15 points 11 months ago

one of them is big oil. they lied about climate change.

there's also big plastic. they lied about recycling being sustainable.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

They're the same, no?

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

looks like more reason to qualify as most.

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

All of them (cop out answer, but its true, you have to be ruthless to be effective.)

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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

[+] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] Merlu@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Are you asking which CEOs are the most cynical?

Yeah, sort of

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Anything owned by Techno Hitler then

[+] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Gotta be the ones that gatekeep necessities for profit.

Housing, healthcare, food, and I guess internet now.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] grimfuture@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Nestle and every corp that showed up to the inauguration.

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