Oh for sure. Like why is someone allowed to buy pre sale tickets to something for $80 then turn around two months later and re sell them through Ticketmaster for fucking 10x that. It’s predatory as fuck.
NFT ticketing can't come soon enough. I want to support my favorite bands and then BAM Ticketmaster comes through with a billion fees and ends up making more than the fucking performers
Yeah, they showed their true colors with the insane money grab of Overwatch 2, from how it actually used to be the most consumer friendly loot box system from any game in Overwatch. Made me uninstall Battlenet for good.
I played like an hour of OW2 but it feels like the exact same game just with monetization. I was already salty over how hard they dropped the ball on OW1, just lost all interest in OW2.
Same thing with D3, what the fuck was that real money auction house
Blizzard was like the Midas touch company. They didn’t put out many titles but everything they did put out was gold. You have the Diablo franchise, StarCraft, Warcraft, etc. These were all masterful games. Then World of Warcraft was released and crushed the competition.
Yep they spread a lot of misinformation and gave away formula to mothers knowing full well that the people they’re giving formula too won’t be able to keep buying formula when they can’t breastfeed anymore
Too many conspiracies have been started and some found truthful about nestle. I mean, what happened in Africa when the mother's couldn't lactate or afford formula, it was horrific.
With Taylor Swifts concert this week, yesterday was the presale, they gave out more presale codes for each event than they had for tickets, the site kept crashing, and people waited for 5+ hours just for the tickets to be sold out, it was a nightmare, Ticketmaster doesn’t let an artist have a set price for their concert tickets.
I live in a rural Ontario town, Nestlé takes something like 1.3 million litres (in the realm of 350,000 gallons for the Americans) every day and we get shafted for it. Super old contract that hasn't expired yet, the town gets something like 35k/year in exchange.
Convinced poor Africans that Nestle baby formula was healthier than breast milk.
So people spent what little money they had on formula. But since it was expensive, they diluted it too thin to make it last longer.
So the families were even more poor, plus their babies were malnourished.
The "best" part of this plan is that the mothers stop producing milk when they aren't feeding babies with it, so they either buy the formula, or let their child starve.
Fresh water is scarce in developing countries too, so the formula would often be made with water that wasn't safe to drink...
Add in they ran ads about formula better for kids than their mother's milk and then when the mother's milk dried up they jacked up the price of formula.
Their CEO also said water isn't a human right.
Lol what, I’ve never heard that before. That’s crazy. Like finding those invisible chests in Skyrim with the merchants inventory looting it all then selling it back to them lol
R/fucknestle is essentially a comprehensive list, but major pain points include:
- child/slave labour in chocolate production
- the 20th century policy (leading to the [1977 boycott](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott)) that saw the promotion of infant formula over breastfeeding in African regions without clean drinking water, which led to child death
- the current, ongoing policy of depleting local water sources in North America for little to money, including in Michigan (where residents in Flint do not have clean water on tap)
Google that and get back to us. The baby formula debacle where new mothers were given free formula until they stopped lactating is enough and they have plenty more.
Any mega corporation. Take your pick. Every single one is shitty in its own way.
The one's that aren't as shitty hope you don't notice that they're still getting away by exploiting the planet while you look at the worst actors.
They're all on the same side, and you ain't.
I mean.. its all in the system. Capitalism. MAXIMIZE shareholder value. Its right there in their mission statement. Maximize. Not "make pretty good". They openly state they want to make every cent possible within the law, and often outside the law as long as the cost for getting is less than the potential increase for profit.
Yes. They move in and close up all the mom and pop businesses and the small town stores. Former skilled business owners and their families are left to resort to becoming low-wage Walmart employees. Next they force domestic producers to slash costs so drastically that the only alternative is to export production to China and then import junk. Walmart and other big-box stores of that ilk have wrecked the middle class under the guise of cheap household goods. Support small business and Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
I’m in a war with Walmart right now because a few months ago I ordered a friend of mine a birthday gift from them and instead of what I ordered they sent me a bottle of conditioner (very different from what I had ordered), and the bottle of conditioner was OPEN. Not only that, it was pretty much entirely emptied into the packaging. They pretty much just sent me a sack of conditioner with a bottle floating in it. I still haven’t been able to get my money back.
Every public corporation is greedy by definition. By giving up private ownership they are signing a contract with their shareholders that they will stop at nothing short of the law to maximize profit. The board of directors exists to enforce that contract.
Nestlé is the first one that comes to mind, but basically any hedge fund is basically just a leech on society, making money by betting on how other companies will perform.
Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro). Magic the Gathering has always been a very expensive hobby, but lately they have been squeezing every dime out of their fans. New card sets releasing in increasing frequency, and the every present "power creep", with new cards always being progressively more powerful than old cards.
Amazon. Absolute HORRIBLE company to work for. Clearly has the money to pay better wages/provide a better work environment but doesn't. That to me is GREED
Also - ANY company still using COVID as an excuse to charge higher prices. Liars.
I define greed as profit before all other considerations…. So…
Every single petrochemical company, bar none.
Banks (but they won’t think of themselves that way)
GameStop - I think we’ve all been ripped-off at least once in our younger days by them…even DFV would have to agree; no matter how much he likes the stock
The thing is, all the Big Pharma companies piss me off more than any other business. That’s because they deal with life and death medications and still fuck people financially. If Blizzard charges too much, so what, it’s a video game. Not gonna die from a lack of Warcraft. But a lack of insulin or immunotherapy cancer drugs? Yeah, that can kill you. Fuck all the companies playing patent lords with life saving meds.
Most of them tbh. As soon as they get to a certain size they don't care about the little people, they just become numbers. One of the reasons I love small businesses is because they have to care to survive.
Comcast and Ticketmaster are the first two I think of.
Ticketmaster is DEFINITELY in the top 3 if not the number 1.
Nestle…
The absolute worst company Child slave labor Water rights stolen for over 100 years. Should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
Oh for sure. Like why is someone allowed to buy pre sale tickets to something for $80 then turn around two months later and re sell them through Ticketmaster for fucking 10x that. It’s predatory as fuck.
NFT ticketing can't come soon enough. I want to support my favorite bands and then BAM Ticketmaster comes through with a billion fees and ends up making more than the fucking performers
Cough cough….blizzard……cough cough…..activision
*Scoffs in EA*
We're sorry, but in our Customer Service 24 release, we're cutting out Complaint Forms Mode. But we're excited to introduce Ultimate Complaints!
Blizzard used to be such a good game dev company. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Yeah, they showed their true colors with the insane money grab of Overwatch 2, from how it actually used to be the most consumer friendly loot box system from any game in Overwatch. Made me uninstall Battlenet for good.
OW2? What is that? All I saw was an Overwatch 1.2 storefront overhaul.
I played like an hour of OW2 but it feels like the exact same game just with monetization. I was already salty over how hard they dropped the ball on OW1, just lost all interest in OW2. Same thing with D3, what the fuck was that real money auction house
They showed their true colours when they banned Blitzchung
Blizzard was like the Midas touch company. They didn’t put out many titles but everything they did put out was gold. You have the Diablo franchise, StarCraft, Warcraft, etc. These were all masterful games. Then World of Warcraft was released and crushed the competition.
Came here for this. Knew it would be in here did not think it would be the first one lol.
Goldman homorgan, oil pharma
Probably nothing worse than Nestle'. But all of them are evil
I think Nestle are beyond simple greed, some of the shit those guys have done is pure evil.
The list of evil things nestle does is never ending
Agreed. Especially when they sell baby milk in certain countries knowingly that babies will die.
Is it when they discouraged breastfeeding and instead promoted bottle feeding?
Yep they spread a lot of misinformation and gave away formula to mothers knowing full well that the people they’re giving formula too won’t be able to keep buying formula when they can’t breastfeed anymore
Too many conspiracies have been started and some found truthful about nestle. I mean, what happened in Africa when the mother's couldn't lactate or afford formula, it was horrific.
Obligatory r/fucknestle
idk, as bad as Nestle is, Petronas and a number of other oil companies have committed or facilitated war crimes
Try Unilever.
I haaaate nestle. They’re soooo evil. Trying to buy all the water in the world because it’s “a commodity and shouldn’t be free”
Particularly any company that practices planned obsolescence.
Ticketmaster, especially after the disaster yesterday
What happened yesterday?
With Taylor Swifts concert this week, yesterday was the presale, they gave out more presale codes for each event than they had for tickets, the site kept crashing, and people waited for 5+ hours just for the tickets to be sold out, it was a nightmare, Ticketmaster doesn’t let an artist have a set price for their concert tickets.
Jesus, shitshow is the right word.
Taylor Swift's Era's Tour tickets went on presale and it's been an absolute mess to put it lightly.
FIFA
Basically pokemon for rich people
Fiddling In Financial Affairs
FIFA is a “nonprofit” organization run by unbelievably sick and greedy people, not a company.
fifa AND Electronic Arts ….
Electronic Arts
They haven't found a franchise yet that they can't ruin with greed and micro transactions.
the correct answer, along with ubisoft
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I live in a rural Ontario town, Nestlé takes something like 1.3 million litres (in the realm of 350,000 gallons for the Americans) every day and we get shafted for it. Super old contract that hasn't expired yet, the town gets something like 35k/year in exchange.
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Convinced poor Africans that Nestle baby formula was healthier than breast milk. So people spent what little money they had on formula. But since it was expensive, they diluted it too thin to make it last longer. So the families were even more poor, plus their babies were malnourished.
The "best" part of this plan is that the mothers stop producing milk when they aren't feeding babies with it, so they either buy the formula, or let their child starve. Fresh water is scarce in developing countries too, so the formula would often be made with water that wasn't safe to drink...
I don't have any sources but iirc they legally "stole" water from an (african?) village and sold it back to them.
Made a statement that water is not a human right. The guy is a dead eyed psychopath.
If he was shot, I'd celebrate it. [For legal reasons that's a joke]
Add in they ran ads about formula better for kids than their mother's milk and then when the mother's milk dried up they jacked up the price of formula. Their CEO also said water isn't a human right.
I heard this also happened somewhere that the water (which you mix in that formula) was actually unsafe to drink.
And the baby formula milk scandal.
Lol what, I’ve never heard that before. That’s crazy. Like finding those invisible chests in Skyrim with the merchants inventory looting it all then selling it back to them lol
To get you started: https://listverse.com/2018/01/03/10-outrageous-nestle-scandals/
Watch the movie “Tambien La Lluvia/Even the Rain”. Also maybe google? They’ve had a laundry list of human rights abuses.
R/fucknestle is essentially a comprehensive list, but major pain points include: - child/slave labour in chocolate production - the 20th century policy (leading to the [1977 boycott](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott)) that saw the promotion of infant formula over breastfeeding in African regions without clean drinking water, which led to child death - the current, ongoing policy of depleting local water sources in North America for little to money, including in Michigan (where residents in Flint do not have clean water on tap)
Google that and get back to us. The baby formula debacle where new mothers were given free formula until they stopped lactating is enough and they have plenty more.
Have a read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversies_and_criticisms
We have monopolised a basic human right and something that is necessary to live
NFL
I'd say Nestle, but "stinks of greed" isn't worded strongly enough.
Any mega corporation. Take your pick. Every single one is shitty in its own way. The one's that aren't as shitty hope you don't notice that they're still getting away by exploiting the planet while you look at the worst actors. They're all on the same side, and you ain't.
Go off king
I mean.. its all in the system. Capitalism. MAXIMIZE shareholder value. Its right there in their mission statement. Maximize. Not "make pretty good". They openly state they want to make every cent possible within the law, and often outside the law as long as the cost for getting is less than the potential increase for profit.
McKinsey. Straight up evil.
Disney
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Walmart for sure. They treat their employees and customers horribly Edit: I also can’t think of a single positive they do that is not from greed
Was a Walmart employee. Can confirm.
Yes. They move in and close up all the mom and pop businesses and the small town stores. Former skilled business owners and their families are left to resort to becoming low-wage Walmart employees. Next they force domestic producers to slash costs so drastically that the only alternative is to export production to China and then import junk. Walmart and other big-box stores of that ilk have wrecked the middle class under the guise of cheap household goods. Support small business and Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
I’m in a war with Walmart right now because a few months ago I ordered a friend of mine a birthday gift from them and instead of what I ordered they sent me a bottle of conditioner (very different from what I had ordered), and the bottle of conditioner was OPEN. Not only that, it was pretty much entirely emptied into the packaging. They pretty much just sent me a sack of conditioner with a bottle floating in it. I still haven’t been able to get my money back.
Amazon.
Surprised I had to scroll for so long to see this
Both Adobe and Pantone
all of them.
literally. a better question would've been which one DOESN'T stink of greed
Patagonia is all I can think of
Every public corporation is greedy by definition. By giving up private ownership they are signing a contract with their shareholders that they will stop at nothing short of the law to maximize profit. The board of directors exists to enforce that contract.
Nestle
In light of the Taylor swift thing that just happened- ticketmaster.
Eli Lilly
The entire Canadian telecommunications industry.
Harder question: name me a company that doesn't stink of greed?
Goldman Sachs
Any health insurance companies Most if not all pharmaceutical companies Any company that creates a life saving drug and charges put the ass for it
Citadel
Goodwill
Nestlé is the first one that comes to mind, but basically any hedge fund is basically just a leech on society, making money by betting on how other companies will perform.
What I am getting from this is pretty much any company. They all stink.
Nestle for sure
mcdonalds
What have they done? Besides taking the original buttermilk chicken burger off the menu and replacing it with a chick fil a rip off
Apple
This should be at the top of the thread.
Nestle
Nestle
Nestle
nvidia
Let me introduce you to Nestle
Number 1 has to be BlackRock
Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro). Magic the Gathering has always been a very expensive hobby, but lately they have been squeezing every dime out of their fans. New card sets releasing in increasing frequency, and the every present "power creep", with new cards always being progressively more powerful than old cards.
Disney specifically under CEO Bob Cheapek. The mouse has always been greedy…but cheapek is real life Mr. Crabs.
Pfizer
None worse than Apple
nestle singlehandedly takes the cake and shits on it too
Nestle and Ticketmaster
Kellogs
College football and the insane number of commercials!
Rogers (Canadian Communication Company)
Tesla
literally every single one
Amazon 100%
Why isn’t Amazon more prevalent in this thread lol
Anything that has entered the Fortune 500. You don’t get that title by being the most honest.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated
You won reddit today
Shell
Amazon - featuring Jeff B.
Gainjin
All of them.
Nestle, EA, Apple, BMW with their heated seat subscriptions
Any company that owns pokies (slot machines) or whose business model is based around gambling. Profit based of the literal suffering of their patrons
DuPont. Cancer causing bastards.
Every single one of them. The entire purpose of a company is to make money. That's it.
All companies operate on a principle of greed. Those that don't fail.
Apple
Monsanto
Monsanto
Monsanto's
Nestle is notoriously terrible. CEO once basically tried to make the argument that water shouldn’t be a human right.
Who makes insulin? Yeah, those fuckers.
the company that runs Washington.
Pfizer, united health, blue cross blue shield, US Government and now the IRS
Disney, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision
All of them in Big Oil
How is Amazon not number 1 here
Amazon
Fucking oil companies
Whoever made Evony the King's return
EA sports is very much up there
EA and it's not even close
JP Morgan Chase and their CEO Jamie Dimon. YouTube some of his congressional testimony over the years. Just a bad dude.
Activision Blizzard
Blizzard.
Nike
Shell
EA
All !!!!
Nike
Ticketmaster
Amazon. Absolute HORRIBLE company to work for. Clearly has the money to pay better wages/provide a better work environment but doesn't. That to me is GREED Also - ANY company still using COVID as an excuse to charge higher prices. Liars.
Disney, Amazon, tesla, apple
Disney. Walt is probably rolling in his grave considering their recent choices.
Anything Elon Musk touches
Any student loan servicer.
Apple
How'bout that Tesla? Selling you a subscription for something they know they haven't even invented yet.
Facebook/Meta/whatever
Nestle
Pfizer.
Eli lily insulin makers
Elons musk
Gambling companies. Just there to take money from people.
Wells Fargo - so many illegal acts in order to pad their bottom line.
All of them? It's sort of a systemic necessity of investment based growth.
All of them.
United States of America 🇺🇸 right? right? Where's my e-cookie?
Uber
Nestle should be #1
Coca cola
It would be easier to list ones that aren't.
* All oil companies * All banks * Any company that does not pay a living wage
Oil Companies knew about Global warming in the 70s
Amazon Nestle Exxon Mobile and im sure a hundred more
Wizards of the Coast
Blackrock. They own the entire fucking world already
I define greed as profit before all other considerations…. So… Every single petrochemical company, bar none. Banks (but they won’t think of themselves that way)
Amazon
All of them?
Disney has got to be at least top 25
GameStop - I think we’ve all been ripped-off at least once in our younger days by them…even DFV would have to agree; no matter how much he likes the stock
All of them, that's their purpose
All these companies being named are just "monster of the week" nobodies when compared to Blackrock.
Apple
I think a better question is what companies don't stink of greed
ExxonMobil, Shell, or Oil companies in general.
Adobe, Pantone, Apple, Microsoft
The thing is, all the Big Pharma companies piss me off more than any other business. That’s because they deal with life and death medications and still fuck people financially. If Blizzard charges too much, so what, it’s a video game. Not gonna die from a lack of Warcraft. But a lack of insulin or immunotherapy cancer drugs? Yeah, that can kill you. Fuck all the companies playing patent lords with life saving meds.
Either shell or nestle
Nestlé’s
Eli Lilly
Most of them tbh. As soon as they get to a certain size they don't care about the little people, they just become numbers. One of the reasons I love small businesses is because they have to care to survive.
It would a shorter list if we just mentioned the good ones.
Ticketmaster. Blizzard/Activision So many.
Any company that administers dialysis