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What's the worst company ever. Period.

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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn’t an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with thousands ten fucking thousand of AIDS needles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg

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andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world
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The fuck man

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CorInABox@kbin.social
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And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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Thanks, I fixed my post

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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‘moral issues above profit’ … yeah, I can’t believe that of all things is an issue

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!

Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? 😉

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cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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I was actually thinking of Norm Macdonald’s catchphrase “the more I hear about that Hitler fellow, the less I like him!” but yeah, that’s heinous as fuck too 😬

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dedale@kbin.social
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Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disasters. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

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andrew@midwest.social
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They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.

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tryagain@lemmy.ml
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Jesus. Straight to the top

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jrs100000@lemmy.world
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Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.

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Ranessin@feddit.de
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Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.

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nevernevermore@kbin.social
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Does it work as cough medicine at all?

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999@kbin.social
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As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.

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jrs100000@lemmy.world
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Presumably

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Alien Surfer@lemmy.world
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Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.

MASS ATROCITIES!

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jossbo@lemmy.ml
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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.”

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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That’s a 10/10 quote

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Antiques@lemmy.world
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And no. 2 is The British East India Company

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Alien Surfer@lemmy.world
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Yea I probably got them mixed up. The British one is what I meant. It’s probably number 1?

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Antiques@lemmy.world
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No lol you are right, the Dutch one was worse

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mohKohn@kbin.social
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came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I’d be pointing at them.

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livus@kbin.social
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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.

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jocanib@lemmy.world
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kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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This is the answer, hands down.

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Pawan Pawar@lemmy.world
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Please take my upvote.

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kaknife@lemmy.world
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What about the South Sea Company?

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small44@lemmy.world
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United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala

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optissima@possumpat.io
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20th century East India Company.

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