Asklemmy

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.

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.

Every advertise company. I believe the world would be better if people would stop trying to sell other people stuff they don't need.

Maybe Goldman Sachs. Manipulation of many markets, both contributed to and profited from the 2008 crash. Which they paid a $550mil settlement for when they're like a $100bil company. Imagine making $50k a year, committing fraud ("misleading its investors") at a national scale affecting millions, and getting fined $250.

Also manipulation of gas prices, food supply/prices, insider trading, they're just the freaking worst.

Arasaka.

Monsanto

Nestle and it's not even close.

All of them

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.

Corecivic

Yes.

There are a lot of extremely strong candidates, but I’m gonna go with Meta on this one.

Google

Congress. Oh you said corporations, not their property, my bad.

So. Many. Choices. Not sure I can pick one.

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?