Which corporation do you find most offensive and why?

Avatar Image   Started by misternobody misternobody has 301 Grupie Points 2 years ago         Comments 1 Comment

Obvious examples: Enron for swindling people ruthlessly, News Corporation because nationalistic media empires remind me of the 3rd Reich, &c...

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Wal-Mart

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Drives me crazy that they are just diving into every kind of product to take over every market. Leave some for the little guy. Or ... [show more]

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Microsoft

Half the stuff they do is good, half the stuff they do is terrible... Get your act together and stop screwing consumers!

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EXXON-MOBILE

Any corporation that can knowingly take advantage of others during a time of disaster gets my vote. We the people lined up to dona... [show more]

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Halliburton

Big Hal. The winners of the Second Gulf War.

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AOL

I'm sorry, but they just suck

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Any knowingly acting illegally, otherwise none.

Every company should be able to act as ruthlessly as they wish as long as its within the limits of the law.

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Starbucks

For heavy handing and overthrowing real coffeehouses, hoarding real estate, bastardizing language, price gouging, perpetuating the... [show more]

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R.I.A.A.

quickest way to lose my respect is to directly victimize and extort money from people who love your "art". The RIAA is the most di... [show more]

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Any corporation using tariff-free zones (The Gap, Nike etc)

Any corporation who chooses to use child labour, or pay below living condition wages to a labour force in (for example) China, the... [show more]

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Insurance industry

Masters of bad faith

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US Government

i know, this is no corporation but this is even worse as all listed here corporations....Everybody knows why... I hope some day w... [show more]

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Eli Lilly

Their lobby has more power for dictating America's mental health policies than the American Psychological Association. Eli Lilly ... [show more]

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Philip Morris, tobacco company that kills millions.

Because my Uncle John died of throat cancer, and I miss him.

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Whole Foods

Corporations that sell feelings of moral self-righteousness to their customers piss me off.

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The all suck

Every big company can't help but be evil. There only motivation is money and you know how the saying goes.... [show more]

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The Pharmaceutical Industry

They aren't curing anything. They are masking symptoms without getting to the cause of the problem. Most pills make people worse... [show more]

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Monsanto

For too many reasons to add here, an overview can be found at this link (but it's not all); http://www.organicconsumers.org/monli... [show more]

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Jamsterson 2 years ago

Lots of possibilities here: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0425-21.htm

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This topic was started by misternobody misternobody has 301 Grupie Points on April 26th, 2006. 113 grupies have voted on one or more of the 17 answers.

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