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35 Surprising Companies That Are A Lot More Evil Than Meets The Eye
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As consumers, we’re all just trying to do our best. Buy what you need but not too much. Support small businesses, but don’t break the bank. Stop supporting fast fashion and animal cruelty, and make sure that bag didn’t come from a factory where workers are exploited. Trying to be an ethical consumer can be confusing and exhausting.
But if we can’t be perfect consumers, thanks to the landscape provided for us by massive corporations, we can at least try to avoid the brands that are the worst of the worst. Reddit users have recently been calling out the most “evil [companies] not enough people talk about,” so you’ll find some of their thoughts down below. From huge pharmaceutical distributors to fruit producers, you may already be aware of some of these unethical companies, but feel free to upvote the ones you’d like others to stop supporting as well!
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#1
PETA. Bunch of f*****g hypocrites.
Annymoose 2 years ago
Pet murdering psychos. "They're better off dead than living". I have zero respect for anyone who supports them.
Michelle C 2 years ago
About 95% of the animals they rescue are eventually euthanized. I forget exactly where I read this, but I have never forgotten it, and I will never support PETA for that alone.
Full of Giggles 2 years ago
My husband and I own a farm in the middle of the Arizona (US) desert. We have an 7ft/2.1m electric fence around our property to keep out predators like mountain lions and coyotes. PETA has tried to cut our electric fence 5 times to “liberate” our livestock. We’ve explained multiple times to these idiots that they are actually putting the animals in danger. If the animals go beyond our fence, they’ll die either from a predator attack, dehydration, or heat exhaustion. PETA doesn’t give two shits as long as the animals aren’t eaten by humans.
Demolition Lover (He/him) 2 years ago
They literally stole a little girl's dog from her family's porch and killed it.
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
“It’s been 1 day of being here without being adopted you must be suffering we’re gonna kill you now”
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#2
Any for-profit health insurance company has plenty of blood on its hands. Charging people out the a*s only for non-doctors to decide what care is or isn’t medically necessary to cover.
Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
People were clutching their pearls over "death panels"... we already had them. They're the people who deny insurance coverage with completely arbitrary and unqualified decisions.
Lizzie Lola 2 years ago
My other fav, "dying waiting for a doctor". We already have this!
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Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
I get the pleasure of being blind for half of every month because insurance will not allow let them administer treatment more frequently than once every 28 days.
Casey Payne 2 years ago
Well it has worked wonders for the healthcare industry. They have been the 2nd most profitable industry in the world for several years running. Oil/Gas/Plastics are number one. Everything else are way off in the distance. The pandemic actually increased their profits and their stockholders are looking for ways to keep increasing profits. Anyway they can.
Jill Pulcifer 2 years ago
My back is literally crumbling and I'm only 41. My Doc has been trying to get me a MRI for years and they continue to deny it. If its as bad as my Doc thinks it is I could end up paralyzed, they know this and just don't care.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
This!! I almost sliced my thumb off and went to an urgent care, but because I had bandaged it myself since it was Thanksgiving weekend, it was never filed correctly, and my insurance deemed it unnecessary.
Penny Kemper 2 years ago
They should be legally required to have a doctor decide or better yet they should not be able to disapprove anything a Dr orders!
To learn more about how this conversation started, we reached out to the Reddit user who posed the question, "What’s an evil company not enough people talk about?" And lucky for us, they were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. "I hear a lot of ‘so and so company is bad’, for example Nestle ([screw] Nestle)," the OP shared. "There are so many it is hard to keep track of and there are so many terrible ones that go unseen. Reddit seemed an interesting place to ask that, as users often have weird and interesting information regarding there kinda topics."
"Some of the most unethical companies I have heard of, which are commonly consumed/bought from/used is Nestle, and there’s even a dedicated subreddit called [screw] Nestle, which really opened my eyes. There are countless others, unfortunately," the OP added.
#3
De Beers - the largest diamond company in the world - has been exploiting workers in the world's poorest nations for 135 years.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
They have vaults full of diamonds, held in reserve, to keep prices up and insure their monopoly. Diamonds are literally just pretty rocks.
Bookworm 2 years ago
Worse, they're pretty rocks that you can *make in a lab,* no human rights violations necessary, but people still want the ones mined by children because the lab-grown ones aren't 'rare' and 'special.'
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liam newton-harding 2 years ago
“Dirty” diamonds…Brown diamonds, used in industrial processes because they weren’t “pretty”, and “sparkly”. Now sold to idiots as, “chocolate” diamonds.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
Diamond are literally worth nothing the money paid for a diamond is the biggest scam in the precious stone world. Go to Diamond State Park in Arkansas and find some yourself.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
“Blood rocks” yeah jewelers can see the difference with a magnifying glass, but to the eye there’s no difference between lab grown vs mined.
#4
The Christian broadcasting network. Pat Robertson was one of the biggest pushers of anti-lgbt propaganda to Christians everywhere, going as far In the 80s to say that gay men wore rings with a spike so when they shake someone's hand they'll infect that person with HIV. May he rest in p**s
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
He said that the 9-11 attack was God's punishment on America for tolerating gay people.
JammaCoast2Coast 2 years ago
I'm not usually known to celebrate someone dying. Pat Robertson is the exception.
Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
I was a minister back when he was attempting to run for president. I would get phone calls from other christian organizations telling me I had to push his agenda. When I told them to p**s off they would threaten to picket the church I served. Nice folks.
Azure Adams 2 years ago
He's was the biggest closeted gay there ever was. The rainbow mafia denied him and he reacted with the rage of a child denied a toy.
Realistic_Lemons (any) 2 years ago
The rainbow mafia is my favorite way to refer to it except the alphabet mafia
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Jill Pulcifer 2 years ago
The only time I have seen my husband skip was when he found out Pat Robertson died, he literally skipped into the room cheering and hollering "guess who died!?". I didn't have to, I knew it was either him or Trump and Im just not that lucky.
#5
The Susan G Komen Foundation (The reason pink is everywhere for breast cancer awareness) is a crooked organization that not only pockets the majority of the incoming donations, but actively restricts other cancer research fundraising ventures.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
While it may have been true that breast cancer research comprised only a 21% share of Komen's program expenses (Charity Navigator puts the figure at 28.8% as of March 2018), citing that figure as a criticism of the organization reflects a common misbelief that groups dedicated to addressing particular diseases (e.g., the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the ALS Association) exist solely or primarily to fund and direct research into curing and/or preventing those diseases. This perception is inaccurate: Komen and other groups like it have goals that include delivering a wide array of services to the communities they support beyond the funding of research, such as funding educational awareness and outreach programs, providing screening and diagnostic procedures, and arranging medical treatment and home care for persons currently living with those diseases.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
A more relevant metric for assessing a charity's overall financial effectiveness is the percentage of the organization's budget that is actually spent on all the programs and services the charity delivers, and in this area the Charity Navigator charity evaluation site gives Komen an 80.3 rating (as well as a 96.0 rating for Accountability & Transparency). Charity Navigator does rank many other breast cancer charities higher than Susan G. Komen for the Cure, however.
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Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Never heard of it. I donate to MacMillan Cancer Support, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation
Tristan J 2 years ago
Each £1 for British Heart Foundation: 26.2p charitable activities, 40.6p fundraising, and 33.2p generating income.
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CanadianaKa 2 years ago
I come from the not for profit world though have NEVER worked for SGK and personally loathe it. That said, there's a lot of expense involved in running a charity. Yes, the upper management is usually paid a mind-boggling amount, but you are getting what you pay for - a CEO is responsible for being part of bringing in million-dollar donations, lobbying governments, etc. You are not buying just the CEO's time, you're buying their contacts. And there's also the salaries for everyone else. I am a national manager in one of the more prestigious, oldest charities in Canada and if it weren't for rent control, I'd have to live an hour outside my city just to be able to have my own place. The rank and file have to live.
CanadianaKa 2 years ago
After the Ice Bucket challenge went viral, there were complaints about the benefitting org lying about how much money went into research. They weren't - but research was only ONE of the major programs they ran. They also ran housing and support for people living with the disease. Research is great because it helps the people living with those diseases later - but reputable charities also try to help the people living with those diseases NOW, and offering counselling, support services, therapy, assistive and prosthetic devices, even housing, are all expensive too.
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Stellar Wind 2 years ago (edited)
Pink Ribbons, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Ribbons,_Inc.#:~:text=Release-,Pink%20Ribbons%2C%20Inc.,US%20breast%20screening%20clinic%20programmes. A deep dive into pink ribbons
Penny Kemper 2 years ago
If you look it up... it seems they are doing better now with giving more of the money to research, than they had in the past.
We were also curious what the OP thought of their post's replies. "Most [of them] did not surprise me, many were about Nestle, naturally," they told Bored Panda. "But others were about different insurers, healthcare companies, and fast fashion brands. Otherwise, there were responses from people affected by unethical retirement and nursing companies, and surprisingly many about ‘fake’ charities, that act as tax breaks and legally pay almost nothing to their workers."
#6
Johnson and Johnson knew they had asbestos in their baby powder and still sold their products, causing countless cases of ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.
WindySwede 2 years ago
that is why I stay away from them, also Nestle I put in the same place "But i'm a nice company!"-box...
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
My dad says they dump a whole load of garbage in lakes and stuff (nestle)
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Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Nestle, Monsanto, Kraft, Heinz, Cadbury, Unilever, all on my boycott list.
Evan not Hansen 2 years ago
There was also a whole thing about them trying to keep the rights to Tuberculosis vaccines after it was supposed to expire, which would have kept millions of people from being able to get the vaccine and live good lives. Thankfully they have backed down now, but yeah, they are not a good company.
Joshua David 2 years ago
They also produced a powder called Shower to Shower and people were exposed from that as well. A family company my @$$
Tiffany Wilson 2 years ago
And J&J have the audacity to try and claim bankruptcy to keep from paying out. They were denied because the Judge saw right through it.
#7
Herbalife. Absolute trash scam ruining people’s lives.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
All MLM (MultiLevel Marketing) companies are scams...they are just pyramid schemes, except with a product or service.
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
My friends mom used to be in a weight loss gummies type of mlm
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the harbinger of doom s/t/h 2 years ago
those bastards need to be force fed cacti sprinkled with hot sauce and cajun spices
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
then buried up to their necks in the desert with sugar sprinkled on their heads...
Load More Replies... Eric S. 2 years ago
Doesn't matter what the product is. When you start hearing words like "upline" "downline" "independent business owner", RUN AWAY. You're not a franchisee, you're not a business owner, you're not independent. You're a patsy who will get fleeced and brainwashed by a cult-like business. Amway, Herbalife, Mary Kay, Avon, none of them will pay you more than you'd get at the worst minimum wage job, guaranteed.
Roger S 2 years ago
My gf got scammed for almost 10 grand by Herbalife. Kept getting told that profits would start rolling in, and they never did.
mulk 2 years ago
I think not: this company is worldwide, so the scam is worldwide
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Ticketmaster. I don't care that people do talk about how predatory and outright evil Ticketmaster is, it's not talked about ENOUGH. The FTC wants to block Microsoft buying Activision for no particular reason, but Ticketmaster...the very definition of a predatory monopoly gets a free pass. WTF is going on here?
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Lobbyists - the true purveyor of evil in the USA - money buys the politician, and the politician is a puppet - putting their desire for $$ ahead of the well being of the country.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago (edited)
Read up on the banking crisis of 2008 (too big too fail). The big banks literally bought politicians for millions and got bailed out for billions. No one went to jail. All because of the predatory adjustable rate mortgages schemes that they damn well knew were going to fail. edit: spelling
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MakeupMama68 2 years ago
As a very regular concert goer, I loathe TicketBastard 😡😡😡 the tickets start at face value then “another fan” somehow beats you to the tickets and all of a sudden they’ve all gone to dynamic pricing that is 4x face value. I spoke with a band member who’s tickets were through AXS and he said that they see none of those profits from markups. I kept sending him screen shots of the prices and he was fuming. Back in the day scalping was illegal.
Michelle C 2 years ago
Yup. They’ve even been accused of cheating the artists contracting with them, as I recall.
cadena kuhn 2 years ago
They are finally investigating them after politicians couldn't get Taylor swift tickets
Eric S. 2 years ago
I bought a $45 show ticket the other day. Mandatory purchase through TM. Total? $69.62.
Lilac Poet 2 years ago
Thats awful. Mine was £30 but the total came up to £39
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Nikki Gross 2 years ago
I encourage everyone to read about Pearl Jam taking on Ticketmaster in 94/95 and was even approached by the Department of Justice to try and break their monopoly. It obviously didn't work and the band ended up paying for it financially, but they at least tried to do something about it. If enough high profile artists would actually band together they might be able to change things. Unfortunately most are comfortable with the status quo and continue to let fans be price gouged into oblivion.
Joshua David 2 years ago
What ever happened to Live Nation? Are they still around? They were supposed to be an alternative to TM.
iseefractals 2 years ago
It's not "no particular reason" the FTC and many other regulatory committees sought to block microsofts acquisition of Activision. Activision owns Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Diablo, Overwatch and Warcraft. Microsoft already bought Bethesda (fallout, starfield, elder scrolls, Doom, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, Deathloop. Quake, Prey) after already owning Playground games (Forza) 343 (halo) Obsidian (neverwinter nights) Microsoft also owns Xbox.....many of the games owned by activision, are currently available on multiple platforms. Xbox....kinda sucks. But, if microsoft bought another giant game studio with popular properties and proceeded to make them all Xbox exclusive titles, people might not care as much that xbox sucks. That's called anticompetitive practices. Regulators sought to ensure that microsoft didn't do that. That's the reason. With implications that could impact peoples livelihoods.
We also asked the OP if they believe there is such thing as an ethical company nowadays. "Companies can be ethical, but the moment they become a household name, for example, Apple, they have gone too far," they shared. "In order to get there, they must have put profits ahead of people, their egotism ahead of ethics. I’m sure there are many brilliant, morally uncorrupted companies, but unfortunately, it simply isn’t an effective way of making money nowadays."
#9
Nestle, bought some aquafers in Florida and could only legally take x amount a year. They'd just drain them and pay the fines. Also mansanto, but I think people talk about them a decent amount, but some people have never heard of them
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
The most chilling thing I experienced working at Nestle Waters? The CEO quoted as saying "water is a commodity, NOT a right".
Ingeborg Børch 2 years ago (edited)
Exactly. I have tried to avoid Nestle and Nestle owned products since then
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SheHulk 2 years ago
So many other scandals as well, like pushing baby formula instead of breast feeding.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
It wasn't even baby formula. There were no nutrients in it. It was basically just colored water.
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Joran Quinten 2 years ago
"In 1974, a report entitled The Baby Killer accused Nestlé for causing illness and infant deaths in poor communities in third world countries by promoting their infant formula products at the expense of breastfeeding. The report sparked an outrage that led to an international boycott in 1977, which continues today." https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestl%C3%A9_Infant_Formula_Scandal#:~:text=In%201974%2C%20a%20report%20entitled,in%201977%2C%20which%20continues%20today.
gerard julien 2 years ago
"2017 : A Coca-Cola factory in Mexico is reportedly draining wells dry, forcing local residents to buy bottled water. Coca-Cola has previously come under fire in the country for the negative health impact of its sugary drinks."
michael Chock 2 years ago
Nestle filed pointless lawsuits against rural towns that wouldn't give them water rights so once the town went bankrupt and dissolved Nestlé didn't have to ask anymore.
Faith Hurst 2 years ago
Nestle has been taking water from the Arrowhead area of So California on a permit that expired in 1988, diverting water from drought damaged farms and communities. They refused to pay a dime. They suck.
#10
Goodwill. They are non-profit in name only and pay disabled people sub-minimum wage under the guise of helping them. They also put literal garbage on the shelves and sell things higher than they were new. Some are worse than others.
Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
Goodwill is in my town, it's convenient to drop off my items there. Until I saw my shirt being resold at $9.99. I bought it new for 5. No more, I will drive to the next town over to donate my items.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
I donate to smaller, local thrift stores that don't overcharge...or a church, that gives donations away to the needy. No more donations to Goodwill ever again.
Load More Replies... Anna Listler 2 years ago
I once saw a doll from literal dollar tree being sold there for $4. And that was before they raised their prices. Stained up, cruddy, clearly free promotion T shirts for 3 bucks. Disgusting.
Katja Katze 2 years ago
A little info on charity shops that sell used items: The shop rent usually costs the same as for commercial shops. The minimum wage must also be earned through sales. The customers are not rich, the goods are usually extremely cheaper than new goods. The individual items are more expensive than they originally cost, since hardly any employee has the time and expertise to evaluate each item individually. And in most stores there are high costs for sorting and disposing of the rubbish.
CanadianaKa 2 years ago
I spend a lot of time researching local charities or posting things to FB marketplace and the local Buy Nothing group. There are unfortunately no ethical big-name second-hand shops. Goodwill as mentioned is horrible to their disabled staff. Value Village proclaims it supports local charities but is owned by Walmart and generally donates less than 1% *of their profits*. And Salvation Army turns away LGBTQ+ from their shelters. THey all suck. Buy Nothing is great. :)
#11
Autism Speaks
Astrius 2 years ago
As another person with autism, yep. What they are doing is far worse than just sucking a*s at representing us. Just put ‘em in the search bar and look up the recommended results.
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Stephanie Barr 2 years ago
I have two children on the spectrum. We do NOT support "Autism speaks". Autism is not a curse and shouldn't be treated like a disease.
Zenozenobee 2 years ago
From what I heard, they use the money they raised, not so much for helping people on the spectrum, their families or advocating for their rights and acceptance, but rather to "cure autisme" as if it was a disease.
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Harvey Vostrejs 2 years ago
It preaches eugenics and is so corrupt it's unbelievable. As someone with autism, DO NOT SUPPORT AUTISM SPEAKS
Invisigoth (he/him) 2 years ago
my barbershop is an ASD friendly one, and it doesn't have the autism speaks logo, which is why I go there (and it's kewl too)
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Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Mother of a 35-yr-old autistic son here and I thank the goddess we live in Canada and never had to deal with these parasites. Yeah, they have chapters here, but my son was nearly 20 when they started and had aged out of therapy entirely by then. Don't give them a DIME!
Pride Bean️ 2 years ago
As an autistic person autism speaks does not speak for me. They try to install fear into autism and their overall mission is to cure autism.
That Goth Demon (zey/zem) 2 years ago
I don't get how people think there's a cure for autism. It's not a disease, you can't catch it, and it doesn't work like one either.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
Ty! As someone with Autism, I do not support this organization. They have spread so much misinformation! 😕
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
"Autism speaks" rather than "the autistic speak", because f**k the actual human beings involved. We're scary subhumans who must be fixed at all costs so our poor parents won't have to deal with us any more! Bah. That sort of attitude belongs to ye olden days when disabled kids were left out in the woods for the wolves to eat.
#12
Bayer knowingly sold blood-clotting
agents infected with HIV to Asia
and Latin America months after
withdrawing them from Europe
and the US.
Mathieu Brouwers 2 years ago
No, it wasn´t a drugs company during WW-II. Before the war and the concentration camps they sold already Zyclon-B for pest controle. They could not refuse to sell it, it would be their end. (They refused to improve Zyclon-B for larger mamals.) That is why they were permitted to continue business after the war.
Load More Replies... ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
They also bought Monsanto recently...another evil company that is poisoning the earth with glyphosate (RoundUp)...it's good for you, eat more!
Inés Olabarria Smith 2 years ago
And They have monopolized aspirin in Spain. Grrrr you can’t buy but their brand at a very expensive prize.
Len Mastin 2 years ago
They also provided the gas at concentration camps, which was used to EXTERMINATE (as it was called), millions of innocents!
Mathieu Brouwers 2 years ago
No, they had agent which were not tested. They had to withdraw the complete production tested and non-tested from Europe and North America. But Europe and the US needed blood-clotting agents, all of the (new production) tested agents at that moment. The rest of the world needed them as well, so they sold the old tested production to the rest of the world (and tried to test the not tested withdrawn agents to minimize the damage).
#13
Knoa Pharma, formerly known as Purdue Pharma. They are the main character of the opioid crisis.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
So they changed their company name, hoping to throw people off. Go figure. Same old criminals doing their same old rotten s**t, different name.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
Oh, man yall should watch the Netflix 2 parter called "The Pharmacist" the first part deals with his son's death using heroin, and the second part deals with the opioid issues down in Saint Bernard Parrish. It's amazing. That man is a hero and did everything he could to raise awareness to his customers and shut down a pill mill.
John Topper 2 years ago
And after knowing creating an epidemic and making tens of billions of personal profits a worthless, spineless DA granted them legal immunity from any of it, so there is no chance of them being held accountable.
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
Because no one feels like going through the trouble of murdering them?
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Perdue started it. Oxycontin. the statler family should be in prison. Now, its the chinese. They supply the precursors to the carfentanil being smuggled in. Morons think the mexican cartells are the biggest? Far from it. south american and chinese gangs have it. Mexican gangs mostly smuggle in meth.
#14
Monsanto???
readingthequibbler 2 years ago
The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in the 1970s
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Not all big Pharma. Big Pharma has to waste many billions of dollars for no return thanks to the FDA. It's the FDA that is actually evil.
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 2 years ago
Monsanto is a legal firm that sometimes dabbles in biotech. They close down seed banks and sue everyone on their hit list. And they have a friend in the high court.
Cara Vinson 2 years ago
Look up the "Monsanto Protection Act" https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-the-monsanto-protection-act-4866082#:~:text=Supporters%20of%20the%20Monsanto%20Protection,destroy%20their%20genetically%20modified%20crops.
#15
TurboTax has been lobbying the US government not to tell taxpayers how much they owe. So that they can make money doing that.
RAM31280 2 years ago
And lobbying the US government (probably states too) to not make a free filing program available to everyone
GirlFriday 2 years ago
I can think of four free tax filing programs and one of them is Turbo Tax.
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That was going to be my question. I have a very basic, simple return, nothing fancy, but I've used Turbo Tax a lot and it's always free. I do understand that if your return is complicated at all, then you may have to pay extra. It really is quite silly though considering the government knows exactly how much you owe. Just send me a bill every year and take it, life's too short for this crapola.
Load More Replies... Spittnimage 2 years ago
IRS doesn't tell people how much taxes they owe, just how much was paid throughout the year.
Michelle C 2 years ago (edited)
They also got embroiled in a lawsuit for refusing to notify users of extra charges in recent years. They lost and I found out when I got a letter and check. I bet they will be a lot more careful this year.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
They're facing a lawsuit right now for claiming to let you file for free and then forcing you to pay.
Allison Riley 2 years ago
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23727414/irs-free-direct-tax-filing-test. There's a website being worked on by the irs to allow people to file for free without the need of any of the services. It will not cover state returns unless you lobby your lawmakers for it
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
If you have investments, crypto, a cash business, etc the government has no idea how much money you have or what you owe. This is a good thing! If you've a simple return it's free to file via TT or even the IRS. Most of my income is completely untraceable back to me (nothing illegal) by the government, and I've been more than happy with TT. It's cumbersome dealing with 10+ 1099s and such, but those are already reported to IRS... Calculating my otc, cash, and crypto P&L is more complicated, but I'm glad the government doesn't know what I've got going on!
#16
PG&E. They've burned down California several times, [unaliving] a number of our citizens here. Then having the audacity to play money games with the families of the deceased or those who've lost homes. F**k Em.
Wheely 2 years ago
You know, replacing one word with another will only work for a short while. All this "unaliving" nonsense, how long before people get triggered by that word and it has to be replaced with another?
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
it's just censorship for advertising, it's not really for trigger reasons I think
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Alex Martin 2 years ago
My personal favorite was them taking the money set aside for upgrading and maintaining natural gas lines and using it for executive bonuses. That information came out after a major gas line that went through a residential neighborhood in San Bruno California ruptured killing eight people and destroying 38 houses. They then tried to bribe the public utilities commission to get out of some of the fines they had to pay. They ended up owing something like $3 billion in lawsuit settlements, fines, and mandated improvements to their network.
Steven 2 years ago
Wasn't Pacific Gas & Electric also the company poisoning the groundwater in San Bernardino County with chromium(VI)?
RowdieAngel 2 years ago
I mean there was this whole a*s movie in the '90s about how they don't give a damn whatsoever about their impact on people..... it's the same company!
#17
Sallie Mae, really any private student loan lender. Provides predatory student loans with outrageous interest rates that seem to never approach the level of being feasibly paid off. You also end up paying nearly double, sometimes triple the loan by the time you are able to pay it off.
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
Nothing is free. Someone has to pay for it.
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Amy 2 years ago (edited)
I finally managed to pay my private student loans off, and my interest rate had been raised to 13.5%. I'll probably never pay off my federal loans. I've been making payments for 10 years and my balance is $10k higher than when I started due to the way interested is capitalized. This is why it pisses me off so much being called lazy and entitled for supporting student loan relief. People should not be punished forever for trying to get an education.
James Pelley 2 years ago
Effective April 1st, 2023, the Government of Canada has permanently eliminated the accumulation of interest on all Canada Student Loans including loans currently being repaid.
tl gmc 2 years ago
They are also similar to option ARM mortgages which are now illegal. The minimum payment doesn't cover the full interest so the balance continues to increase are you are paying on it. If option ARM mortgages are illegal these should also be illegal.
BiteMyShiny 2 years ago
ARMs aren't illegal, you can still apply for them. We learned nothing from 2008.
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Jacob B. 2 years ago
I'm going to retire in about 10 years and I will still have student loans. Once I retire, I will stop paying them, its not like I will make any big ticket purchases and they can only go after my Social Security, but limited to 10%. My 401k and Pension will more than compensate. To hell with them.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
Sallie Mae used to be the governments place for their loans, but I've just changed a 3rd time to a new company though I wouldn't be shocked if it's all the same company.
Mark Mendenhall 2 years ago
Thank you Obama. That fool moved all the student loans to fed controlled Sallie mae servicing which are serviced in India. More Democrat idiocy.
#18
Tyson Foods, Cargill, National Beef Packing Company, and JBS.
Even if you dgaf about animals, they are pretty awful to the people who work at their slaughterhouses, and those four are like 85% of the market, so they also greatly exploit the farmers who raise animals for them.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
"60 Minutes" segment on underage immigrants on overnight sanitation (cleaning) crews at some of these places. "We(JBS) had no idea the subs were hiring underage people". Yeah, right, I'm quite sure a rep from these companies have someone there to oversee overnight ops.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
Plausible deniability. Don't tell us what your doing so we can't get in trouble for it.
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We went on a field trip to a slaughterhouse in grade school. Before the tour of cow slaughter, we had hotdogs for lunch, then the tour. The grande finale was seeing how hotdogs are made. All was made better with a trip to Dairy Queen for Dilly Bars after. Gotta love the 70s.
DC 2 years ago
Well, ngaf about animals might blind people to see that their core business prevents them from having any ethics whatsoever, and lead to expectations the entire industry fails. It's not one company, it's this industry that, of all largescale operations humans are practicing, offers the least objective benefit and causes the most harm of them all. Oil, nuclear, weapons? Laughable in comparison, although bad enough on their own.
Theora Fifty-five Johnson 2 years ago
Slaughterhouses used to be unionized, got moved to anti-union states, now employ a lot of undocumented workers at low wages with unsafe conditions.
Penny Kemper 2 years ago
Nobody who works at cargill here says anything bad about them. So but someone has to slaughter and cut up the meat to go to the stores.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago (edited)
Pretty sure one of them is pushing into Australia and basically extorting farmers, driving other abattoirs out of business so they'll gain a monopoly and charge whatever they heck they like. There was a piece on them on 60 Minutes here a few months back. Can't remember which company off the top of my head. edit; Sorry it was 4Corners not 60 Minutes, and the company is JBS, article here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYfIXLkoB68
#19
DuPont. Watched Dark Waters yesterday…wtf???
Bols 2 years ago
Could someone please add short description for those who haven't heard about it?
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
DuPont dumped tons of toxic forever chemicals in a landfill which poisoned the environment. Then DuPont used every shady legal tactic available to avoid responsibility. They eventually lost though and had to pay out hundreds of millions.
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Steve Riddle 2 years ago
DuPont in the 1930's wanted to manufacture Synthetic Fibers but couldn't compete with cheap Hemp. So they conspired with the US govt. to outlaw Cannabis to get rid of Hemp. I read this in an old set of encyclopedias from the 1940's..
Michelle K 2 years ago
I DID watch it and read the book, too. Exposure. Robert Bilott is an unsung hero.
Sebby's Mama 2 years ago
I live in the town this company poisoned. I've heard horror stories from people whose family members' lives were destroyed by DuPont. Absolutely horrific what they got away with
#20
Brookdale, the senior care/assisted living megacorp.
Senior care in the US is f*****g terrifying, and they’re at the center of it. Abuse, neglect, grifting survivors into estate-locking deals… Brookdale is evil. And most of us will have to deal with them or someone like them as we’re entering our most vulnerable adult years.
Tamra 2 years ago (edited)
There's not NEARLY enough oversight into elder care in my country (US). In the short time my mom was in a nursing home (just two weeks), I saw a woman with Alzheimer's wandering around the parking lot in her wheelchair - she just wheeled herself out the door and was a few feet away from the busy road. My mom was there for hospice care at the end of her life. She was at the end stage of COPD, and had a buzzer that she could press when things were really bad, and they'd administer morphine. On two separate occasions, the buzzer was completely disconnected from the power source.
That Goth Demon (zey/zem) 2 years ago
WHAT THE F**K?! I AM SOB SORRY THAT POELPE HAVE TO GI THROUGH THAT BATSHIT WHEN THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO ENJOY THEIR LIVES
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I predict that the fancy, luxurious retirement communities companies like these will slowly go out of business as the Baby Boomer Generation dies off. I am a late Gen Xer and there is no way I could ever afford the fees these places charge. I don't have a pension or huge savings. Like most people of my and the proceeding generations, I can only save enough to stave off the current disaster.
Amy 2 years ago
I'm terrified of ending up in a place like that, or being left to die alone once I can't take care of myself anymore. That's why I'll probably unalive myself once I hit a significant decline.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My dad feels the same way! We had a Royal Commission into aged care in Australia a few years ago and there were so many horror stories! I am glad I was in a position to move in with dad (first because we were each living in one bedroom places that raised the rent too much) and when I bought a house I made sure there was enough room for him. I don't know what the future will look like (he just turned 67) but I'm not going to let him face it alone.
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Ellie Hope 2 years ago
I work for a private company that owns 17 care homes in the UK, they're are absolute crooks! They pay minimum wage, bare minimum of staff on shift for back intensely hard work, charge the residents around £2000 a week, after covid we received a plastic medal with covid hero written on it.
Michelle K 2 years ago
Any company that has the cash to run TV ads is bound to be corrupt. Check 'em all out.
#21
This is probably a personal bias, but United Healthcare.
Any health insurance company really....but this all stems from the United States health care system
Norah Reilly 2 years ago
As a recent retiree I can attest to the deplorable, nay, sh!tty healthcare system in the U.S.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
They used different words, but these a******s told me that having skin was a pre-existing condition. They denied a claim for routine screening from my dermatologist because I'd been to the dermatologist previously. Not follow up for a previous case of skin cancer, but a routine check for any new sun-related problems.
Tess 2 years ago
How dare you have the nerve to have skin?!? I guess it undeniably proves that they aren't human if they're walking around without any.
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Bluonthefront 1 year ago
U.S. just rated last among 9th wealthiest nations for healthcare. Yippee.
sara fulmer 2 years ago
You've got a Hernia? When you can stop pushing it back in yourself we'll talk
Ann Dennis 2 years ago
Health care and Capitalism are not good bedfellows, and we're living with the result thereof. I have little (read no) optimism as to the ultimate outcome. I'm an old retired RN, and I can remember healthcare before it became big business.
#22
HCA - Healthcare Corp of America
The largest, for-profit hospital system in the country (world probably).
Imagine if Walmart owned your hospital... that would be an improvement over HCA.
witchling 2 years ago
That's the honest truth. My mother works for them and the issues she deals with are just flabbergasting.
NJJenn1673 2 years ago
I work for them too. It's amazing. Trying my very best to get away from here.
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I'm an accountant. I worked there for a month and walked out. It was the most toxic environment I've ever been in.
#23
Blackstone. It's on more people's radars nowadays but still not enough. The biggest landlord of them all; you wonder why your once affordable suburb now has half-million starter homes that virtually nobody can afford on the average local salary? Blame these guys.
In fact, I'd say Air BnB, VRBO, RedFin, Zillow, every company that adds nothing of value to the economy except artificially pumping up numbers on houses that the supermajority of Americans have been taught to think of as a riskless get-rich scheme, instead of a basic human need.
Greyson Christmas 2 years ago
Pretty sure OP meant "Black Rock" instead of "Blackstone." Blackstone is a BBQ grilling company that produces outdoor items and Griddles.
Nano Iders 2 years ago
They meant Blackstone, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc. Amusingly, the first sentence in that Wikipedia article reads "Not to be confused with BlackRock Inc, an investment management firm."
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New Everywhere 2 years ago
Blackstone and Blackrock were once just one company and split into two companies. Both have an immense amount of power as the largest of their kind in the world. Worth a bit of research. This quiet s**t happening on a massive scale while we try to sort through our myriad daily issues is what terrifies me.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
So many of the App companies (Uber, AirBNB etc) started out as decent ideas that have grown beyond the original idea and become evil. Like AirBNB starting out as a way for people with a spare room to make a little money and people who either couldn't find a hotel booking, or wanted something cheap could find a place. Now it's far more expensive than hotels.
#24
Starbucks. It’s not as “liberal” a company as people think. They essentially gain a lot of their coffee through slave labor in other countries like Brazil, and they treat their Baristas like s**t. There’s a reason many stores are unionizing.
Lizzie Lola 2 years ago
For real! They were relatively new in my area the 1st time I tried a coffee (our office lost power and we NEEDED coffee!) I literally spit it out and thought they'd screwed something up.
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Kendra Nichols 2 years ago
You're right! They actually over roast (burn the beans, which gives it the nasty after taste) to kill off the caffeine. So you have to spend extra on shots of espresso & syrups to taste better & have a. normal. level. of. caffeine. in. Coffee. Coffee!
Michelle C 2 years ago
I’ve stopped buying from Starbucks and make a point of admitting how much I dislike the company when I’m asked about it. It’s a shame because they used to have really good coffee. Get a Keurig machine and buy it from companies like San Francisco Bay and Equal Exchange.
Casey Payne 2 years ago
They had me take an honesty test. I thought I passed, but they said I failed. It wasn't a test of honesty; it was a test of obedience and following the rules. If they had only been honest about the test, I would have passed. How am I supposed to be obedient to their dishonest disobedience? Don't know.
Skye Ragsdale 2 years ago
If your house catches fire, do you want firefighters to put it out? That's a socialist program.
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Uline. It’s a privately owned business run by the extreme right-wing, conservative Uihlein family. They pump millions into efforts to remove voting rights, especially in Wisconsin and are funders of the election denying lie of 2020. So many businesses get their supplies from this company without looking at their politics. It’s really common that I buy something from a business that has its own brand identity focused on environmental or social activism only to have their product show up in a Uline box. I feel like a pedantic Karen but I usually shoot these companies an email to bring their attention to the politics of Uline and suggest some alternatives like Global Industrial, Grainger, etc. In their response they always say they have no clue. At my own company I worked to get them removed from our internal operations which given the size of the business is not insignificant. Made me proud to see the corporate statement removing them from our supply chain.
wowbagger 2 years ago
I didn't know that. The last Uline catalog I got had a page of political stuff in the back, and it was very measured and positive, talking about how we're not as divided as it sometimes seems. I thought it was weird to include a political statement at all, but I liked the statement. I'll do more research before purchasing from them.
Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
F*****g great. Had no idea Uline was a s**t company.. I will start buying Grainger boxes. Thank you!
#26
Coca Cola produces 3 million tonnes of plastic packaging a year. That's an estimated 108 billion plastic bottles a year.
Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago
If coca cola produces a lot of plastic bottles then Pepsi and other drink companies do too.
Jack and Coke 2 years ago
I've always thought that pop/soda tastes better out of glass bottles.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
It doesn't have that aluminum-y taste. It's the same for cider and beer.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 years ago
And have you noticed that every commercial of theirs features GLASS bottles? But when you go to the store it's nothing but plastic bottles and a few aluminum cans.
Sean Sean 2 years ago
Yes, but the companies aren't the ones throwing them all into the environment. It's the end consumer that does that because they don't recycle their plastic.
frog 2 years ago
.... dawg, if you really think the plastic problem we have is the consumer's fault, you're a dumbass 🐛
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Jeannie Miller 2 years ago
We could go back to glass. We survived a long time with glass for everything
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Coca Cola packages to the requirement of the retailers. The supermarkets tell them what size they want the bottles and cans, how many cans per crate, and how the multi packs are packaged (i.e. carboard or plastic).
Terry Fergusson 2 years ago
It's ok. I offset Coca Cola's plastic production by using a paper straw. /s
iseefractals 2 years ago
Around 400 million tonnes of plastic is produced each year, 600 billion plastic bottles. Of the 7 billion tonnes of plastic produced (so far) less than 10% of it has been recycled. Americans buy and throw away 35 BILLION plastic bottles a year. A depressing share of that is from bottled water. The companies continue producing plastic Because consumers continue to buy it. As long as consumers continue to buy something, it will never, ever change.
#27
Blackrock, Koch industries, Sinclair Broadcasting, Sysco, McKesson
Bookworm 2 years ago
Sinclair scares me more than a lot of these others, because they're trying to get a near-monopoly over the news itself, and without accurate information, it's a million times harder to do anything about any of the other corporations on this list.
SMom 2 years ago
That's just one reason the government wants to ban TikTok, it's the closest thing to free speech and not controlled by a corporation.
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Jus Frpn 2 years ago
I worked for MCK almost 20 years in their now dead Hospital Info Tech system. Their previous CEO which this all happened under was awful. At one point he was the highest paid CEO in the US. All he, and the board, cared about was lining their pockets, at least from what I saw.
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
Sinclair Broadcasting where they made ALL their reporters read the same scripted mess.
hillybilly gourdess 2 years ago
Sysco? They are a food supplier to restaurants. I think you mean Cisco
#28
Wells Fargo's pretty shady. I've never worked for or banked with them, but they're pretty shady.
Michelle C 2 years ago
I have a co-worker who is receiving settlement payments from them...years ago Wells Fargo got indicted for seriously over charging their customers fee and interest on their checking accounts...to this day they are still repaying him...with interest...so far he's gotten back about $9000...another one I heard was a friend who had a car financed with them and when he paid it off and deactivated the automatic payments, three months after he found out they were still withdrawing money from his account for the vehicle. When he asked why and how because he ended the automatic payment and the loan is closed they told he that their system must've done it and had to refund it.
Cerridwn d'Wyse 2 years ago
Bank of America did that too they did all kinds of weird stuff with bouncing checks that they shouldn't have bounced
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Had a student account with them years ago. I got my student loan check from the US Department of Education and deposited it. Wells Fargo held the check for three weeks and bounced my checks for housing, books, tuition, etc. I had to get an area manager to reverse all the charges before withdrawing everything, closing my account, and banking elsewhere. They have not changed...google all the shady stuff they have done in the last few decades. They should have lost their banking charter several times over.
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
At the center of EVERY banking scandal, BOA and Wells Fargo are the top tier thieves
Michelle K 2 years ago
They actually CHARGED us a monthly fee for having a savings account. We pulled our $$ and ran to our local credit union. We've never been happier.
Stacy Jones 2 years ago
They bought my home loan, doubled my payments, and took my house in 2008. I guess they did that to everyone, but it was really funny when they tried to get me to open a checking account (I had to make my job's deposits at our local branch.) I straight up told the teller that I would never do business with the company that had stolen my house. That was the last time I saw her there.
#30
Elsevier.
Established a near monopoly of academic journals. Charge scientists to publish in them (in the thousands) also charge the public to read them (subscription also in the thousands). Convince other scientists to review the scientific content for free (exploiting younger scientists who need to build their CV).
Basically putting a pay wall on the results of government tax dollar funded research.
Don’t get me started on how major Universities deal with STEM PhD students. Bringing people in as “students”, make them work 40+ hours a week in lab, purposefully misclassify them as students when really they’re workers, apply for large government grants using data generated by these students, make them do all the grading for the undergrad classes, and then complain when the students are begging for 40k/year. Instead tell them they’re lucky that as “students” they don’t have to pay tuition to be there. At the end of 5-7 years of this treatment they’ll give you a PhD. SCAM.
Wilf 2 years ago
Elsevier is rolling out open-access journals very rapidly. But the fact is open-access is simply not always the best model for running an academic journal for very good reasons. And there are significant questions of the value of turning researchers into consumers- those with the deepest pockets get disproportional attention from publishers. Long-term editorial strategy- set by boards of academics with very real clout could very quickly become eclipsed by the businesses need to make money- decisions will soon start to sound like "oh look. That lab is receiving a lot of money at the moment, let's forget whether the science is any good and rinse them dry for as much money we can get out of them". There are also some big questions about how open-access could undermine the principles of peer-review. Nothing is "free"- someone has to pay. In practice all open-access will do is give more power to those institutions with the deepest pockets. And that's not a good thing.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Elsevier is one of the companies attacking sci-hub, the free science article website. Elsevier used to be a good company but has gone downhill a long way.
#31
UPS. I have seen decisions made that have [unalived] employees and then the supervisor responsible get promoted. I have seen managers get fired for removing time worked from time cards only to be hired back a month later. I have saw intentional OSHA violations on a nightly basis for years. I see supervisors relentlessly harass employees. Horrible company in every way imaginable.
2WheelTravlr 2 years ago
This one is pure fabrication. UPS hourly employees are Teamsters, they have excellent representation. UPS is well known for never hiring back someone who was fired or someone who quits without proper notice. It's definitely not a job that is a good fit for everyone, it is physically demanding and working conditions can be pretty tough, but the pay and benefits are excellent (even for part-time employees). And good grief, no, employees are not being killed on the job.
Lizzie Lola 2 years ago (edited)
This is why we need more unions (because their union won recently, tbc)
2WheelTravlr 2 years ago
UPS is union, Teamsters. My husband was a driver for 25 years, it's a tough job but nothing like the OP claims, and it's one of the rare blue-collar careers which still offer high pay, solid benefits, and great retirement.
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And then let's go with FedEx because ups at least in my neck of the woods is a much better company both in how they treat their employees and their customers
2WheelTravlr 2 years ago (edited)
UPS package car drivers have free full medical benefits, matching funds for stock purchases, excellent pay, and can earn up to 2 months of vacation a year.
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#32
Value Village. They trick people into thinking they are a nonprofit, take donations that could be going to people who need them, and charge insane prices.
Norah Reilly 2 years ago
This is a perfect time for remembering that we can often do the most good when we do it for the people we see/know who are having a hard time.
#33
Pfizer Not trying to sound like an anti Vaxer but they’ve always been a pretty shady company
Wintermute 2 years ago
You don't have to be antivax to hate pharma companies. They're one of the biggest examples of Wall Street corruption.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
As much as I hate big pharma, as someone at very high risk, I am grateful for the vaccine.
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#34
Pearson Vue - Did none of you go to college and shell out way too much money? Or take a standardized test?
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
The textbook industry as well...way overpriced. Change a few minor things and put out another edition every couple years, making the old editions obsolete...just to maximize profits without making any significant changes. Did a lot of photocopying at the library while in university.
Lizzie Lola 2 years ago
Our chefs would copy the text we actually needed so we didn't have to buy the books, unless we wanted to. In which case, they'd tell us the cheapest places to get them
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#35
Luxottica.Pretty much a monopoly on the vision care and product market.They own just about ALL fashion Eyewear and eye care outlets.Hence the ridiculous prices.
Barbara Turner 2 years ago
Get a pair of glasses in a style that suits you second hand. Your optometrist will likely fit your prescription lenses into it.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I mentioned this in another comment in this thread - they want to charge me *more* for just lenses to fit in my existing frames than to buy whole new glasses. The industry is broken.
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Disco Hippie 2 years ago
Globally? I used to work for them in the Nordics and the market share wasn't that big.
Lucille 2 2 years ago
“Luxottica controls 80% of the major brands in the $28 billion global eyeglasses industry.“ https://www.forbes.com/sites/anaswanson/2014/09/10/meet-the-four-eyed-eight-tentacled-monopoly-that-is-making-your-glasses-so-expensive/amp/
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There is something really wrong with the industry when you get a new prescription and just ask for new lenses. Only to be told that it'll cost more to get new lenses and you should just buy whole new glasses. So new frames and lenses are somehow cheaper than *just* lenses. In that case why did you sell me titanium frames that will last a lifetime?
#36
Chiquita
Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
Them, and the Dole fruit company. Those f*cks are responsible for a lot of terrible things that happened to Hawaii.
gerard julien 2 years ago
" Chiquita Brands International Inc. and United Fruit Co. In 1928, workers went on strike in protest against poor pay and working conditions in the company plantations Ciénaga (Colombia). The company lobbied U.S. government forces to assist with repressing the outbreak; however, the Colombian government opted to quell the strike on its own, sending military forces into the town of Ciénaga, where the strikers had gathered, on 6 December. The repression resulted in the deaths of scores of plantation workers and their families. This episode is known in the history of Colombia as the Masacre de las Bananeras (Banana massacre)."
gerard julien 2 years ago
" In 1952, the government of Guatemala began expropriating unused United Fruit Company land to landless peasants. The company responded by intensively lobbying the U.S. government to intervene and mounting a misinformation campaign to portray the Guatemalan government as communist. In 1954, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency deposed the government of Guatemala, elected in 1950, and installed a pro-business military dictatorship. "
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Sonja van Staveren 2 years ago
More like, what's not wrong with them... https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/amicus-briefs/doe-v-chiquita/#:~:text=In%202007%2C%20Chiquita%20pled%20guilty,as%20a%20Foreign%20Terrorist%20Organization.
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Disco Hippie 2 years ago
Yeah, please buy fair trade bananas instead. Not 100% problem free either, but better.
#37
Citadel.
They run and manipulate most of the stock market, but they do it through various "independent" arms...
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
This sounds like a conspiracy theory? There are so many individual investors, and three different major markets.
Keira Pendragon 2 years ago
When a system is designed in such a way that the natural flow of events simply inevitably coalesces into something awful, a conspiracy isn't necessary. Planned obsolescence isn't a 'conspiracy', it just turns out that if you build things to fall apart, you can make more money from the people who need those things replaced and that's pretty universally true, so everyone just started making things to fall apart. If you coordinate with other people to control the market, you can make more money, so if you're in a position to be able to do that, you're just going to do it. This is why capitalism is the problem - you can't have a socioeconomic system built entirely on the accumulation of profits by some by means of the exploitation of most and also still have nice things.
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Rostit . 2 years ago
it comes from reddit. so take it all with a about 10 grains of salt. There are some awful companies listed but some of them are a stretch.
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Josh 2 years ago
The amount of power major companies have and how they choose to misuse and abuse said power is so f*****g depressing.
Riche White 2 years ago
What about Wounded Warriors? How much of the money donated actually goes to the veterans? And shame on our government for not taking care of our veterans properly!
Zephyr343 2 years ago
I see the commercials all the time. At the end, it lists what the money they actually get goes towards including sending postcards to troops." They are not all bad though--my wifes friend was disabled in combat and they helped him build a house. Might just be certain chapters.
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Aballi 2 years ago
Hanes (of the underwear) and Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble) were big proponents of the Eugenics program. The program forcibly sterilized thousands of Americans, often withholding the truth from them (stating they were going in for an appendix removal, for example). The program focused on low income, low intelligence, and non-white Americans as a way to make the future population "cleaner", whiter, and "more desirable". Hitler used the theory of Eugenics. Read up on this, it is one (of many) of the great nightmares of the US's past. The program didn't end until 1972.
Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
Do some investigation before you believe everything you read on this website.
Csaba Hegedűs 2 years ago
I'm quite surprised not to see BLM here. All that money they pretty much blew on private mansions and all that, and none of it went to help the black neighborhoods or education.
Rostit . 2 years ago
it comes from reddit. so take it all with a about 10 grains of salt. There are some awful companies listed but some of them are a stretch.
Load More Replies... Josh 2 years ago
The amount of power major companies have and how they choose to misuse and abuse said power is so f*****g depressing.
Riche White 2 years ago
What about Wounded Warriors? How much of the money donated actually goes to the veterans? And shame on our government for not taking care of our veterans properly!
Zephyr343 2 years ago
I see the commercials all the time. At the end, it lists what the money they actually get goes towards including sending postcards to troops." They are not all bad though--my wifes friend was disabled in combat and they helped him build a house. Might just be certain chapters.
Load More Replies... Aballi 2 years ago
Hanes (of the underwear) and Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble) were big proponents of the Eugenics program. The program forcibly sterilized thousands of Americans, often withholding the truth from them (stating they were going in for an appendix removal, for example). The program focused on low income, low intelligence, and non-white Americans as a way to make the future population "cleaner", whiter, and "more desirable". Hitler used the theory of Eugenics. Read up on this, it is one (of many) of the great nightmares of the US's past. The program didn't end until 1972.
Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
Do some investigation before you believe everything you read on this website.
Csaba Hegedűs 2 years ago
I'm quite surprised not to see BLM here. All that money they pretty much blew on private mansions and all that, and none of it went to help the black neighborhoods or education.
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