Ask Lemmy

I worked for an investment firm that had about 75 employees, but managed $35 billion in assets. There are a lot of those. Their investments tended to be a lot of the companies ruining the world, ranging from the privatized ambulance companies to the privatized hospice care companies to the emerging-market banks, etc...etc... And that's just one "small" investment firm.

Any physical therapy/rehab centers under Select Medical. I worked in one of their regional offices processing insurance claims and was exposed to the grossest type of capitalism. Profit through healthcare.

I did my best to make claims take an insanely long time to fully process so the patients weren't hit with their absurd bills right after they just got done with major medical issues. I kept one guy's outrageous bill in limbo the entire 9 months I worked there. He was a local to my area and I knew by the info in the system that he could not afford those bills. I made sure he didn't even see the bills the whole time I was at that job.

I had my ankle reconstructed a couple of years ago and I knew the bills were gonna be crazy. It took 4 months for me to get them and by that time I was already back to work. I like to think that someone was keeping my bills in limbo while I got back on my feet. I paid off the bills a little then lost track of it all and then decided that I'm just not paying medical shit unless I am forced to pay on the spot.

Dollar Tree/Family Dollar

From under-staffing, to threatening managers to do more with less, to refusing to allow resources for security. They treat people like shit, their customers like shit, and try to undercut their suppliers which leads to half ass quality goods.

Bank of New York Melon

Like the other comment said, I would love to know some morally appropriate companies, that way I can choose to use them. Boycotting is nice but if you lack the knowledge of where to shop then it's a fruitless effort

DuPont. Here's just a little tidbit:

Between 2007 and 2014 there were 34 accidents resulting in toxic releases at DuPont plants across the U.S., with a total of eight fatalities.[93] Four employees died of suffocation in a Houston, Texas, accident involving leakage of nearly 24,000 pounds (11,000 kg) of methyl mercaptan.[94] As a result, the company became the largest of the 450 businesses placed into the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's "severe violator program" in July 2015.

Monsanto:

In Anniston, Alabama, plaintiffs in a 2002 lawsuit provided documentation showing that the local Monsanto factory knowingly discharged both mercury and PCB-laden waste into local creeks for over 40 years.[220] In 1969 Monsanto dumped 45 tons of PCBs into Snow Creek, a feeder for Choccolocco Creek, which supplies much of the area's drinking water, and buried millions of pounds of PCB in open-pit landfills located on hillsides above the plant and surrounding neighborhoods.

These are the kind of companies that inspired the cartoon villains of the 1980s that just dump pollution because.

Stickermule and uline

https://slate.com/business/2024/07/sticker-mule-ceos-pro-trump-maga-email-surprised-employees.html

After stickermule went full magat the owner started to dox people who left negative reviews or spoke out against them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial

A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Herbalife

Mark all corporations off your list. Corporations don't care about the consumer. Only your money, which supports their shareholders.

Virtucon. It's a large telecom that actually is just a front for a doctor who is always trying to do messed up stuff. He's known for cruelly strapping EM radiation transmitters onto fish and then getting them really riled up.

Is that you, Luigi?

Adobe.

Any franchise or corporation that makes their religion known. So fuck chick fil a, hobby lobby, and in n out.

Any local small business with political signs or flags, or religious things on full display as well.

I use good on you app to find ethical, bio brands. It's hard to find good companies, but they do exist.