Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?
Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.
MASS ATROCITIES!
They are the Bug Bad Evil in my pirate themed DnD campaign. Or a proxy of them at least. What better justification for becoming a pirate than them? To quote a real pirate captain from the 1700, “They rob the poor under cover of law, we plunder the rich under the cover of our own courage.”
And no. 2 is The British East India Company
Yea I probably got them mixed up. The British one is what I meant. It’s probably number 1?
No lol you are right, the Dutch one was worse
came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I’d be pointing at them.
This is the answer, hands down.
Please take my upvote.
What about the South Sea Company?
United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala
Unquestionably, the Dutch East India Company
So many to choose from…
My pick would be Bank of America for their illegal foreclosure practices which have ruined many families’ lives, and especially for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis which destabilized the entire global economy and which we are still trying to recover from. Everyone on the entire planet was impacted by the Great Recession.
Ok so Nestle for child murder, Bayer for AIDs blood, Union Carbide for Bhopal disaster and its parent Dow Chemical for Agent Orange (Monsanto too).
IBM for helping the Nazis with concentration camps and Degesch for Zyclon B. United Fruit Company and Dutch & British East India Companies for colonization, also everyone that was shipping rubber out of the Belgian Congo.
Everyone who makes landmines, cluster bombs, etc.
I think when this question is asked in 100 years Palantir is going to feature.
Dutch East India Company or VOC for sure.
Well yeah that’s in a class of its own, for sure.
Chiquita bananas. They literally stole entire south/central American countries and used death squads and the CIA to enslave the workers and kill them when they asked for such unreasonable demands like being paid in actual currency
Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.
As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don’t understand how the name of the store ever took off
Don’t forget Dole. They caused the annexation is Hawai’i.
Both have paid terrorist organizations in the last couple decades.
And we’ll never even get to know what the Gros Miguel Banana tasted like!
It tastes like the marshmallow banana candies/“fake” banana flavouring
Dave’s Electronics at 4th & Elm
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Classic Dave! I so much hate Dave and everything he stands for!
I can’t believe you even put Spectrum in the same tier as Nestle lol.
One let babies starve for profit, the other has shitty internet service /customer service. Seems equal /s.
Johnson&Johnson
swindled does a few episodes about them. It’s FUCKING INFURIATING the shit they got away with.
get away with FTFY
Damn you right.
Hard to pick a favorite from the long list.
Nestlé!
Stone Mountain Coal Company and the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency
Cliff notes?
A lot of good choices here already so ill throw blackrock into the ring