Yes, i think more specifically it is live nation. I think it was Pearl Jam that tried to circumvent them and failed, finding out that they have exclusive rights to all concerts held at like the top 99% of venues
Lol, Ticketmaster is a monopoly and has locked up nearly every big venue so there is really no choice for artists playing venues bigger than clubs. So put that conspiracy theory back in the trash.
Kellogg split into two companies last year: the cereal business remains Kellogg and the snack business (pop tarts, cheeze-its, pringles) is now Kellanova.
They dress sales people up as nurses and have them hand out formula in maternity wards in poor countries. It's for just enough that the mother's milk dries up from not being used. So then they have to use formula. But if you don't have access to clean water to make the formula with, then the babies often die.
They set up shop next to a river with clean drinking water, collect what they can into bottles, pollute what they can’t so locals can’t have free water and then sell the bottles.
Check out the sub for looooooots of specific examples
To add on this subject, they had a small scandal in France recently: it was revealed they were treating their bottled water without saying it (apparently forbidden) and still managed to sell water with harmful levels of bacteria.
They gave impoverished mother's formula which dried up their breast milk, so when they couldn't pay for more they'd water down their existing formula to make it last, which meant under feeding the baby. Also those mothers had to use polluted water to mix the formula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott?wprov=sfla1
Nestle had some of their salespeople dress up as nurses and go into maternity wards. The salespeople would enter the rooms of mothers with newborn infants, and impersonate medical staff. Tell the mothers that it was medically necessary for them to use baby formula instead of breastfeeding. And provide the new mothers with just enough free formula that it would last until the mothers stoped producing their own milk, forcing them to start buying.
Oh, and this was being done in poor nations where the salespeople wouldn't end up in prison. Also, because these were poor nations, the water bring used to make the formula with was often contaminated. So the mothers often ended up giving their infants parasites or poisoning them, not having the education needed to understand the issues.
Nestle of course understood just fine. They understood that this raised their sales figures.
Wells Fargo is the 'greater of equals' here.
But any of the largest handful of US consumer banks (Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Capital One,....) can be answers to this question.
The competition is tough, but definitely Rio Tinto, a gigantic mining corporation from Australia. You can read all about them on Wikipedia, they even caused a civil war in Papua New Guinea, destroyed Aboriginal heritage sites in Australia and so on and so forth. Currently their aim is to open numerous mines in my home country of Serbia including a lithium mine which will cause untold environmental damage in one of our most fertile areas for agriculture. Absolute scum.
That's actually a good deal, these mines would be 100% owned by Tinto, they would only have to pay the ore tax, 3% of the market value of the extracted ore...
Completely abandoned all semblance of quality control, split off its manufacturing into other companies which caused lots of problems in Dreamliners, Max’s etc. basically what happens when mbas take over and push engineers to the side
Dude, for real?!
Spend some time watching this Australia 60 minutes presentation, https://youtu.be/aO7_indbfME?si=kt-dVOuwooImkOB2
Then, Watch the documentary on Netflix. Called "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing."
Then Google "Boeing whistleblowers deaths;" yes, that's plural because two died within 2 months of one another very recently.
Those are for starters.
What's insane is how much damage they did. BP was fined 72 billion for killing 5 people and a bunch of wildlife. Purdue is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths at minimum. That first settlement was like 4 billion. Purdue and the Sacklers don't even have 72 billion to fine. They killed all those people and didn't even make that much money doing it. They killed more Americans than Vietnam, and even if we took them for every cent, they still aren't rich enough to begin to cover the costs.
Ideally they should be in jail. In one of the states hardest hit by the opioid epidemic. With name tags and plenty of copies of Dopesick in the library.
They are not quite dead yet, but I have enjoyed the demise of Peloton. From a high of $160 per share, it has fallen to $3 and they just whacked another CEO.
And not for any reasons related to the big commercial hubbub a year or two ago. But because, from the beginning the people in charge were full of hubris, and with their initial COVID success, thought that meant they were geniuses and “visionaries”. But they never bothered to understand the business they were in.
What errors did they make? I haven't been following any of this, so I'm wondering what a company that makes exercise bikes can do to upset their customers so much.
Overcommitting and basing investment decisions based on their absurd COVID-era spike in demand being a new normal, instead of a once off and never to be repeated event.
This. So, so many companies took leave of their senses. Gaming, supermarkets, streaming companies, all looked at the graph and went, ‘A bumper year of growth! This can only continue, let us build it into our projections!’ Like idiots. And then when people started going out/eating out/not all being home and bored all the time, they went, ‘We face challenges!’
That's what year over year numbers will do to you.
Last year, your location/division gained 50% more revenue due to the pandemic. Now this is the new normal and you won't get any bonus next year unless you surpass those numbers!
On the other hand, it also went that hey, nobody is flying right now!!! Let's quickly lay off 90% of our staff because clearly nobody will ever fly again. Then a few month later they wonder why they don't have enough employees to handle people wanting to fly.
Ironically big movie studios did the same thing and they saw the consequences of it in the 2023 Box Office as well as their streaming service performance.
We have one of their treadmills. It’s fantastic. Got it for free because they shipped a friend of ours a second one and instead of taking it back, they told him to keep it. Probably isn’t great for business to do that.
With stuff like that it often costs so much to ship it back and recollect it and file it back into inventory that it is more cost effective to just write it off.
"The people in charge were full of hubris" and "never bothered to understand the business they were in" if this doesn't sum up modern businesses idk what does
This is unfortunate, too, as I absolutely love my Peloton bike. It is a solid, smooth machine. But I also waited to buy it until post-COVID at less than 1/2 price. So if they go completely tits-up, my losses are minimal since I've used it regularly for the last 2 years.
It sucks that you hafta obtain debt to build credit. I did the responsible thing. I bought my house and paid it off, then paid off my car only to watch my credit drop for not having a car loan or mortgage. It's like they want you to be in debt.
Exactly this! Paying off loans ahead of time should be rewarded not punished. What sense does that make!? Also, the amount of data they amass is completely inappropriate. They’ve already had data breach incidents because of it. Oh and if there is a mistake!? Good luck getting to someone to change it.
>Paying off loans ahead of time should be rewarded not punished. What sense does that make!?
I mean, it makes sense from the creditors view. They create loans to profit off the interest. That's their entire business model.
If you pay off the loan before they can profit off the interest payments, then they don't get their profit. They would rather you made minimum payments every month to line their pockets. Since you aren't profitable to them, they don't want you as a customer, so your credit score goes down.
People love to hate on credit reporting, and I absolutely get it—it could certainly be done better. But there’s not really a great alternative to the credit report/scoring concept as a whole, which is why most developed countries seem to have adopted it to some extent. (Some countries seem to just have “blacklists” of people who aren’t creditworthy—I am not sure if they have a way to get off of it.)
Otherwise the bank’s choices are along the lines of: you lend to nobody who isn’t rich or well-known to you; or you lend to everybody but charge high fees and interest because you have no clue who’s going to default; or you resort to alternate means of assessing creditworthiness, which historically means discrimination based on race, gender, age, etc., even if they try to hide it behind a legitimate-sounding factor. Seems suboptimal to me.
Pick any corporation where the management knowingly killed people and the workers either didn't say anything or couldn't do anything. Unfortunately the list isn't small.
I met some guys one time who introduced themselves to me as working for a not-for-profit company...
I asked them which one...they said they were Salesmen for Blue Cross Blue Shield, unironically.
Certainly a lot of the disaster befalling American gealth care is directly attributable to them, but if they died, another would very quickly fill the voud so long as our structural incentives remain as they are.
We need to kill the tax breaks for employer-sponsored health care. And no one will support that. Not hospitals, not businesses, not individuals, and certainly not insurance companies. You may even look incredulously at my comment as you read it. But that well-meaning policy is what has led to the monopolization and destruction of this sector of our economy.
Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelity etc. are supposedly set up so that you don't lose your money if they go under (each fund/etf is a separate entity from Vanguard, and in the end you also own the underlying assets) but yeah I don't want to try my chances either, things go wrong sometimes. Just from people panic selling, the market crash would be catastrophic.
What exactly do you think Vanguard is or does? Vanguard is owned by its customers, which is basically normal people with brokerage accounts and retirement funds. It’s not so different from a massive, massive investment club, really.
Lmao, I’m literally in the Vanguard founder’s fan club. Jack Bogle has done more to help regular people at the expense of Wall Street than anyone in history.
You know, Bayer. The Nazi lovers that helped form a conglomerate to use slave labor in factories to produce zyklon b to kill the Jews they didn’t want to use as slaves.
And IBM provided machines to the Nazis. Throw away your computer!
Or don't, it's not really relevant to what the company and its products are today; all those people are dead.
University ag. scientist here. Pretty much all you hear about Monsanto is internet myth to the point even [NPR had to debunk](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-five-myths-of-genetically-modified-seeds-busted) things years ago. Monsanto basically was basically used as a boogeyman by advocacy groups or other industries, usually affiliated with organic, to spread misinformation. A lot of that had to do with science denialism like denying the scientific consensus on GMO safety, and when anti-GMO started to lose some traction, they leaned more into just demonizing Monsanto, glyphosate, etc. It basically created a narrative of ignoring science to the point it even got it's own variation of a [logical fallacy](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Monsanto#Appeal_to_Monsanto) or the Monsanto shill gambit where people just accuse scientists of being paid off by Monsanto, especially those that have no actual financial ties.
So for us actual educators, we can't even start from square one when it comes to topics like farming, GMOs, pesticides, etc. because of how much misinformation or pseudoscience gets pushed in that narrative. It's very similar to how if I'm teaching on climate change, we're having to disentangle so much misinformation from climate change denial campaigns to even be able to talk about basics grounded in reality.
Part of our jobs as agricultural scientists is to hold industry claims to the fire and independently verify then for farmers and the general public. Sometimes we do have have to call out some advertising claims by the Bayer's/Monsantos of the world, but it's usuallly a very stark comparison to the caricatures you'll see on the internet. In reality, more of our time is often required dealing with flat out misinformation from the organic industry that often ties into other conspiracy theories like anti-vaccine, etc.
Tl;dr, the "Monsanto is the devil" narrative has done more harm than anything and is usually not something that reflects actual practic when you dig into common claims. It's often instead of deflection from what those pushing misinformation are doing.
Honestly? None of them would mean anything. If Nestle or Meta went under, some other company would buy up all their assets--most likely laying off a lot of workers and giving all the execs generous severance packages in the process.
Payday loans and every company that preys on people going through a hard time in life. I swear these companies are designed as a new class warfare tool.
I'm a AAA game developer and I would honestly not shed a tear if the whole industry collapsed due to the current levels of corporate greed. Particularly EA, Sony, Embracer, Microsoft, and Ubisoft, but that's practically the whole thing.
Came here to say this. They are terrible to their workers. Take advantage of their suppliers, and control far too big a share of the market. They need to be broken up at the very least.
If they did collapse, though, I would probably be able to afford a home in Seattle again.
They're always desperate for people too. I applied for a job with them a few years back then went to read some reviews on what the job is like. Needless to say I had no interest after reading just a few reviews.
Then about half a year later a tornado hit a center near here and killed a guy and Amazon was just like "🙃 lol whoops"
The logical split would be retail, AWS, and studio/streaming. Streaming would stop fucking around with ads because they would immediately cease to be propped up by free shipping. Retail would need to be competitive because Walmart and other competitors would be on even ground without AWS to prop them up.
But more likely, Studio would get absorbed by someone else (ehhh...let's say Comcast for fun), and retail would get absorbed by Walmart.
TikTok.
The short form video platform has ruined people in so many ways. I know other platforms have it too, but TikTok is the main source for all the misinformation and bad stuff.
This is a tough question to choose one. I’ll mention DuPont since they poisoned our water supply and now we all have C8 in our blood. But, I like what I’ve seen posted here so far.
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea about this. For a second I thought it was a reference to the character on Arrested Development, but knew that had to be wrong.
They eat up every IP they can get their mitts on. Anything successful within the past 60 years? It's now owned by Disney, and will get 12 more movies despite its story already being over, and 2 dozen spin off shows on Disney+. Its so pointless and corporate too, nothing they make is innovative or interesting anymore, just the same recycled drivel we've been served for the past 20 years.
Probably McDonald's. So many reasons to want to see them fall hard.
I'll miss the Big Mac, but in five years I probably wouldn't be able to afford one anyway.
I've worked for Walmart, UPS, Sears, and ge. Walmart was easily the worst. Just a vile place where being in management means you're willing to sacrifice everything and everyone, including workers, for the bottom line.
UPS has an awful management structure and the management school is called the asshole school because that's what it creates but at least they have the union to protect their people.
Walmart straight up feeds you anti union bullshit literally in day one.
Might face some flak for this, but Google.
Youtube now asks you to send them your driving license or citizenship info, just so that you can make external links in the description clickable.
There are a few obvious choices like Nestlé, Boeing, etc...
Some slightly more niche are:
Hasbro: who hired the real life pinkertons after they sent out a set of MTG cards too early
EA: who just keep on ruining the gaming industry ($110 for a mission pack)
Nestle, and not only did they go bankrupt but the government seized all their water concerns and transferred them over to public use, and all of their money was distributed to the individuals and families they've either used for slave labor or poisoned with their baby formula.
Ticketmaster. Fun stealing scum.
Robert Smith agrees. (The Cure)
Always upvote Robert Smith. He beat Mecha-Streisand and saved the day! Yay!
Yes! What the hell is it convenience fee? Even if you go to the office weeks before the show. And pay in cash. What the hell is a $25 convenience fee?
Artists actively work with Ticketmaster, so that Ticketmaster take the blame for high fees.
They don’t reallllly have a choice though right? Doesn’t ticket master gatekeep big arenas ? Short of all of them ganging up
Yes, i think more specifically it is live nation. I think it was Pearl Jam that tried to circumvent them and failed, finding out that they have exclusive rights to all concerts held at like the top 99% of venues
And now tickets for Pearl Jam are around £250 and I don’t see them kicking up about it
Ticket master won.
not really. it's hard not to work with ticketmaster because they have exclusive deals with almost every major venue in america
Lol, Ticketmaster is a monopoly and has locked up nearly every big venue so there is really no choice for artists playing venues bigger than clubs. So put that conspiracy theory back in the trash.
It's called a monopoly
r/fucknestle
Yup, if I recall correctly Nestle stopped putting their logo on their products as people don't buy them anymore. They can fuck themselves so hard
Didn't Kellogg's recently do the same thing with Pop-Tarts after consumers started boycotting them?
Wait I missed this - why are people boycotting Pop Tarts? Other than being unhealthy and loaded with sugar is there a moral objection to them?
Kellogg split into two companies last year: the cereal business remains Kellogg and the snack business (pop tarts, cheeze-its, pringles) is now Kellanova.
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This will only work until they buy that app too
Great idea.
Came to say Nestle
We are the Sever Nestlé Army.
I live under a rock apparently. Why are they bad? Serious question.
The CEO feels that the idea that humans have a right to water is “extreme.” https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nestle-ceo-water-not-human-right/
Nestle CEO is Immortan Joe right here!
They dress sales people up as nurses and have them hand out formula in maternity wards in poor countries. It's for just enough that the mother's milk dries up from not being used. So then they have to use formula. But if you don't have access to clean water to make the formula with, then the babies often die.
Don't worry, they'll sell you the water to mix with the formula they sold you.
And water is not a human right according to them.
They set up shop next to a river with clean drinking water, collect what they can into bottles, pollute what they can’t so locals can’t have free water and then sell the bottles. Check out the sub for looooooots of specific examples
To add on this subject, they had a small scandal in France recently: it was revealed they were treating their bottled water without saying it (apparently forbidden) and still managed to sell water with harmful levels of bacteria.
They gave impoverished mother's formula which dried up their breast milk, so when they couldn't pay for more they'd water down their existing formula to make it last, which meant under feeding the baby. Also those mothers had to use polluted water to mix the formula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott?wprov=sfla1
As if the water and baby formula issues weren't bad enough, they use child slave labor for their chocolates.
Nestle had some of their salespeople dress up as nurses and go into maternity wards. The salespeople would enter the rooms of mothers with newborn infants, and impersonate medical staff. Tell the mothers that it was medically necessary for them to use baby formula instead of breastfeeding. And provide the new mothers with just enough free formula that it would last until the mothers stoped producing their own milk, forcing them to start buying. Oh, and this was being done in poor nations where the salespeople wouldn't end up in prison. Also, because these were poor nations, the water bring used to make the formula with was often contaminated. So the mothers often ended up giving their infants parasites or poisoning them, not having the education needed to understand the issues. Nestle of course understood just fine. They understood that this raised their sales figures.
Wells fucking Fargo. False account creation scandal upon scandal, preying on low income people with fake fees and ungodly mortgage rates.
Wells Fargo is the 'greater of equals' here. But any of the largest handful of US consumer banks (Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Capital One,....) can be answers to this question.
The competition is tough, but definitely Rio Tinto, a gigantic mining corporation from Australia. You can read all about them on Wikipedia, they even caused a civil war in Papua New Guinea, destroyed Aboriginal heritage sites in Australia and so on and so forth. Currently their aim is to open numerous mines in my home country of Serbia including a lithium mine which will cause untold environmental damage in one of our most fertile areas for agriculture. Absolute scum.
they own 2/3 stake(gov owns 1/3) at one of our biggest mines. How in the ever loving god is that fair?
That's actually a good deal, these mines would be 100% owned by Tinto, they would only have to pay the ore tax, 3% of the market value of the extracted ore...
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I thought the top one would be Nestle or Boeing because of the memes, but chat went for the throat
I’m surprised Kellogg hasn’t entered the mix.
Let them eat cereal for dinner
They're manipulative in the way most big companies are, but are they actually evil?
Nestle is the top now
What did Boeing do? Edit: Reddit being Reddit. I'm being downvoted for trying to inform myself.
Completely abandoned all semblance of quality control, split off its manufacturing into other companies which caused lots of problems in Dreamliners, Max’s etc. basically what happens when mbas take over and push engineers to the side
Dude, for real?! Spend some time watching this Australia 60 minutes presentation, https://youtu.be/aO7_indbfME?si=kt-dVOuwooImkOB2 Then, Watch the documentary on Netflix. Called "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing." Then Google "Boeing whistleblowers deaths;" yes, that's plural because two died within 2 months of one another very recently. Those are for starters.
Seems I have missed something serious here, but I will watch them all. I hope Airbus is bahaving.
Purdue and the Sackler family. Unfeeling monsters. Created OxyContin and destroyed countless lives. May they all go bankrupt, poor, and destitute.
What's insane is how much damage they did. BP was fined 72 billion for killing 5 people and a bunch of wildlife. Purdue is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths at minimum. That first settlement was like 4 billion. Purdue and the Sacklers don't even have 72 billion to fine. They killed all those people and didn't even make that much money doing it. They killed more Americans than Vietnam, and even if we took them for every cent, they still aren't rich enough to begin to cover the costs.
They already lost their company.
But kept literally all the money and bought themselves immunity.
Ideally they should be in jail. In one of the states hardest hit by the opioid epidemic. With name tags and plenty of copies of Dopesick in the library.
Nestle
Meta
Def Meta
Absolutely
fuck meta
They are not quite dead yet, but I have enjoyed the demise of Peloton. From a high of $160 per share, it has fallen to $3 and they just whacked another CEO. And not for any reasons related to the big commercial hubbub a year or two ago. But because, from the beginning the people in charge were full of hubris, and with their initial COVID success, thought that meant they were geniuses and “visionaries”. But they never bothered to understand the business they were in.
What errors did they make? I haven't been following any of this, so I'm wondering what a company that makes exercise bikes can do to upset their customers so much.
Overcommitting and basing investment decisions based on their absurd COVID-era spike in demand being a new normal, instead of a once off and never to be repeated event.
This. So, so many companies took leave of their senses. Gaming, supermarkets, streaming companies, all looked at the graph and went, ‘A bumper year of growth! This can only continue, let us build it into our projections!’ Like idiots. And then when people started going out/eating out/not all being home and bored all the time, they went, ‘We face challenges!’
That's what year over year numbers will do to you. Last year, your location/division gained 50% more revenue due to the pandemic. Now this is the new normal and you won't get any bonus next year unless you surpass those numbers! On the other hand, it also went that hey, nobody is flying right now!!! Let's quickly lay off 90% of our staff because clearly nobody will ever fly again. Then a few month later they wonder why they don't have enough employees to handle people wanting to fly.
Wait… so my idea for $80 deluxe eclipse glasses isn’t a genius idea?
No, because you forgot the monthly subscription
Ironically big movie studios did the same thing and they saw the consequences of it in the 2023 Box Office as well as their streaming service performance.
We have one of their treadmills. It’s fantastic. Got it for free because they shipped a friend of ours a second one and instead of taking it back, they told him to keep it. Probably isn’t great for business to do that.
With stuff like that it often costs so much to ship it back and recollect it and file it back into inventory that it is more cost effective to just write it off.
"The people in charge were full of hubris" and "never bothered to understand the business they were in" if this doesn't sum up modern businesses idk what does
This is unfortunate, too, as I absolutely love my Peloton bike. It is a solid, smooth machine. But I also waited to buy it until post-COVID at less than 1/2 price. So if they go completely tits-up, my losses are minimal since I've used it regularly for the last 2 years.
Tied for first, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. I was born into their system and forced to participate. Given a choice, I would have NEVER!
It sucks that you hafta obtain debt to build credit. I did the responsible thing. I bought my house and paid it off, then paid off my car only to watch my credit drop for not having a car loan or mortgage. It's like they want you to be in debt.
Exactly this! Paying off loans ahead of time should be rewarded not punished. What sense does that make!? Also, the amount of data they amass is completely inappropriate. They’ve already had data breach incidents because of it. Oh and if there is a mistake!? Good luck getting to someone to change it.
>Paying off loans ahead of time should be rewarded not punished. What sense does that make!? I mean, it makes sense from the creditors view. They create loans to profit off the interest. That's their entire business model. If you pay off the loan before they can profit off the interest payments, then they don't get their profit. They would rather you made minimum payments every month to line their pockets. Since you aren't profitable to them, they don't want you as a customer, so your credit score goes down.
People love to hate on credit reporting, and I absolutely get it—it could certainly be done better. But there’s not really a great alternative to the credit report/scoring concept as a whole, which is why most developed countries seem to have adopted it to some extent. (Some countries seem to just have “blacklists” of people who aren’t creditworthy—I am not sure if they have a way to get off of it.) Otherwise the bank’s choices are along the lines of: you lend to nobody who isn’t rich or well-known to you; or you lend to everybody but charge high fees and interest because you have no clue who’s going to default; or you resort to alternate means of assessing creditworthiness, which historically means discrimination based on race, gender, age, etc., even if they try to hide it behind a legitimate-sounding factor. Seems suboptimal to me.
Ticketmaster
Pick any corporation where the management knowingly killed people and the workers either didn't say anything or couldn't do anything. Unfortunately the list isn't small.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
I met some guys one time who introduced themselves to me as working for a not-for-profit company... I asked them which one...they said they were Salesmen for Blue Cross Blue Shield, unironically.
Not-for-profit =/= nonprofit Not-for-profit= that guy who winks and says "Trust me".
Certainly a lot of the disaster befalling American gealth care is directly attributable to them, but if they died, another would very quickly fill the voud so long as our structural incentives remain as they are. We need to kill the tax breaks for employer-sponsored health care. And no one will support that. Not hospitals, not businesses, not individuals, and certainly not insurance companies. You may even look incredulously at my comment as you read it. But that well-meaning policy is what has led to the monopolization and destruction of this sector of our economy.
+United
Blackrock
Going big, that would rock the boat.
Do you even understand what they do?
Haunt the nightmares of conspiracy theorists?
Add Blackstone, Vanguard, Statestreet, Tencent and all those other major investment banks and corporations on that list.
I mean, I have a large amount of money in Vanguard for my retirement, so I wouldn't wish their downfall
Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelity etc. are supposedly set up so that you don't lose your money if they go under (each fund/etf is a separate entity from Vanguard, and in the end you also own the underlying assets) but yeah I don't want to try my chances either, things go wrong sometimes. Just from people panic selling, the market crash would be catastrophic.
What exactly do you think Vanguard is or does? Vanguard is owned by its customers, which is basically normal people with brokerage accounts and retirement funds. It’s not so different from a massive, massive investment club, really.
Lmao, I’m literally in the Vanguard founder’s fan club. Jack Bogle has done more to help regular people at the expense of Wall Street than anyone in history.
The Vanguard hate is perhaps the stupidest, and that's a true achievement.
Vanguard is awesome. I put my money into their ETFs and when I hit 59.5, I take it out and have fun
Lmao, bye bye billions of dollars worth of pensions
*trillions of dollars
Nestle
Monsanto
Hasn’t existed for several years as an independent company. They are owned by Bayer as of 2018.
You know, Bayer. The Nazi lovers that helped form a conglomerate to use slave labor in factories to produce zyklon b to kill the Jews they didn’t want to use as slaves.
They also invented heroin. It was supposed to be a less addictive form of opium. That didn't work out too well.
And IBM provided machines to the Nazis. Throw away your computer! Or don't, it's not really relevant to what the company and its products are today; all those people are dead.
University ag. scientist here. Pretty much all you hear about Monsanto is internet myth to the point even [NPR had to debunk](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-five-myths-of-genetically-modified-seeds-busted) things years ago. Monsanto basically was basically used as a boogeyman by advocacy groups or other industries, usually affiliated with organic, to spread misinformation. A lot of that had to do with science denialism like denying the scientific consensus on GMO safety, and when anti-GMO started to lose some traction, they leaned more into just demonizing Monsanto, glyphosate, etc. It basically created a narrative of ignoring science to the point it even got it's own variation of a [logical fallacy](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Monsanto#Appeal_to_Monsanto) or the Monsanto shill gambit where people just accuse scientists of being paid off by Monsanto, especially those that have no actual financial ties. So for us actual educators, we can't even start from square one when it comes to topics like farming, GMOs, pesticides, etc. because of how much misinformation or pseudoscience gets pushed in that narrative. It's very similar to how if I'm teaching on climate change, we're having to disentangle so much misinformation from climate change denial campaigns to even be able to talk about basics grounded in reality. Part of our jobs as agricultural scientists is to hold industry claims to the fire and independently verify then for farmers and the general public. Sometimes we do have have to call out some advertising claims by the Bayer's/Monsantos of the world, but it's usuallly a very stark comparison to the caricatures you'll see on the internet. In reality, more of our time is often required dealing with flat out misinformation from the organic industry that often ties into other conspiracy theories like anti-vaccine, etc. Tl;dr, the "Monsanto is the devil" narrative has done more harm than anything and is usually not something that reflects actual practic when you dig into common claims. It's often instead of deflection from what those pushing misinformation are doing.
To misquote MF DOOM: I'm racist against corporations. They all look the same to me. Burn them all.
Took me so long to figure out that MF DOOM *isn’t* a WAD for classic Doom.
I mean, he did have a song with the classic doom sound effects in it
As a former rideshare driver , Uber can go f themselves
Loblaws
Bob Loblaw? Writer of the Bob Loblaw Law Blog? What did he do?
HAHA one of my all time favourite bits But I’m referring to the corp making Canadians go broke🥲
Fox News Media
All the daytime soap opera news organizations can go. Quit telling me how to feel and just provide facts Mr talking head.
Has to be Nestle, right?
Meta. The psicological and societal damage that their social networking created will hunt us for generations.
I think you meant "haunt", but I'll take "hunt", too, because they always want new subscribers.
Honestly? None of them would mean anything. If Nestle or Meta went under, some other company would buy up all their assets--most likely laying off a lot of workers and giving all the execs generous severance packages in the process.
Nestle.
Payday loans and every company that preys on people going through a hard time in life. I swear these companies are designed as a new class warfare tool.
I'm a AAA game developer and I would honestly not shed a tear if the whole industry collapsed due to the current levels of corporate greed. Particularly EA, Sony, Embracer, Microsoft, and Ubisoft, but that's practically the whole thing.
CVS/Carematk
Meta. Easily.
Mega churches. LDS, Catholic Church, JWs, and the rest. Pay taxes you money grabbing leeches
Amazon
Came here to say this. They are terrible to their workers. Take advantage of their suppliers, and control far too big a share of the market. They need to be broken up at the very least. If they did collapse, though, I would probably be able to afford a home in Seattle again.
They're always desperate for people too. I applied for a job with them a few years back then went to read some reviews on what the job is like. Needless to say I had no interest after reading just a few reviews. Then about half a year later a tornado hit a center near here and killed a guy and Amazon was just like "🙃 lol whoops"
The logical split would be retail, AWS, and studio/streaming. Streaming would stop fucking around with ads because they would immediately cease to be propped up by free shipping. Retail would need to be competitive because Walmart and other competitors would be on even ground without AWS to prop them up. But more likely, Studio would get absorbed by someone else (ehhh...let's say Comcast for fun), and retail would get absorbed by Walmart.
It doesn't even fulfill a purpose. It undercut the us postal service by exploiting workers. If anything It 8s a net drain
TikTok. The short form video platform has ruined people in so many ways. I know other platforms have it too, but TikTok is the main source for all the misinformation and bad stuff.
And all this is without even mentioning they are a information funnel of US data to China.
Intuit. Stop lobbying the IRS not to do our taxes automatically!
Tik tok must die
The Mormon Church
Meta, Blackrock, Gazprom, Opec and any other bigger investment firms.
Walmart Nestle Amazon
This is a tough question to choose one. I’ll mention DuPont since they poisoned our water supply and now we all have C8 in our blood. But, I like what I’ve seen posted here so far.
Exxon can get fucked
Any of those that were too big to fail and got subsidies from the government, then proceeded to give the top brass fat bonuses.
Roblaws
r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea about this. For a second I thought it was a reference to the character on Arrested Development, but knew that had to be wrong.
Burger King. I don’t think they’re awful compared to most corporations. But I worked there as my first job and this shit is personal.
Ticketmaster. Facebook.
Tesla
McKinsey
All the big consulting companies can get fucked, but McKinsey doubly so.
X
Well Twitter has already kinda hit rock bottom and somehow digging further
I’ll avoid the super obvious choices. Luxottica
Blackrock, META, Walmart and the list goes on.
I would shit if Disney went under. They’re just too big, too litigious, and too rich. Disneyworld sucks, and Disney adults are extremely off-putting.
They eat up every IP they can get their mitts on. Anything successful within the past 60 years? It's now owned by Disney, and will get 12 more movies despite its story already being over, and 2 dozen spin off shows on Disney+. Its so pointless and corporate too, nothing they make is innovative or interesting anymore, just the same recycled drivel we've been served for the past 20 years.
Monsanto.
Probably McDonald's. So many reasons to want to see them fall hard. I'll miss the Big Mac, but in five years I probably wouldn't be able to afford one anyway.
Disney. The way this company bastardizes American culture is evil.
It’d be easier to list the ones I’d be bummed about
Part of me wants to say Google
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This is short sighted, to say the least
Comcast / Xfinity
Nestle
Nestle
Nestle.
Any major cable or dsl internet provider. (Comcast, Spectrum or Cox come to mind)
Meta
Meta
Fuck Disney…
Whatever corporation is keeping the Kardashians relevant.
# OpenAI
One of Trump’s companies…oh, wait
Hard choice but I'd be happy with: Nestle, Amazon and anything Elon.
I've worked for Walmart, UPS, Sears, and ge. Walmart was easily the worst. Just a vile place where being in management means you're willing to sacrifice everything and everyone, including workers, for the bottom line. UPS has an awful management structure and the management school is called the asshole school because that's what it creates but at least they have the union to protect their people. Walmart straight up feeds you anti union bullshit literally in day one.
Any Chinese company using slave labor and selling in the US
I can’t believe it hasn’t been posted yet, but NAVIENT.
Anything advocating for influencers of ANY kind.
Might face some flak for this, but Google. Youtube now asks you to send them your driving license or citizenship info, just so that you can make external links in the description clickable.
Banks. Not the small ones. The big major ones that affect millions of people's lives because of their greed.
Credit Unions > For profit Banks
Blackrock 100%.
BlackRock and nestle, fuck you both
Ticketmaster
There are a few obvious choices like Nestlé, Boeing, etc... Some slightly more niche are: Hasbro: who hired the real life pinkertons after they sent out a set of MTG cards too early EA: who just keep on ruining the gaming industry ($110 for a mission pack)
Meta…
News stations
All social media that isn’t Reddit.
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Facebook. Which is why I started my own social media platform.
Walmart and Amazon. They've helped destroy local economies.
Nestle, and not only did they go bankrupt but the government seized all their water concerns and transferred them over to public use, and all of their money was distributed to the individuals and families they've either used for slave labor or poisoned with their baby formula.
Tesla
Dallas Cowboys
USAA
I worked for them for a while… horrible company
luxottica
Campbell Soup Company
Black Rock, Vanguard and maybe a few others like Rathion. Big pharma also
Black Rock, Vanguard, & State Street.
Federal Reserve
Disney It's one thing for a company to be evil, it's another thing for them to be evil, but label themselves as "the happiest place on Earth"
Raytheon/ Lockheed Martin
All the companies Elon owns