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[Watermonkey]

I'll start, I may add to the list, but as far as I know, Monsanto is the world's most EVIL and destructive corporation. Monsanto Corp (NYSE: MON) has almost single-handedly decimated the honey bee populations in the western hemisphere (Bee keepers who keep their bees "organic" say they've seen no population declines!). They've destroyed the fertile lands in much of the western hemisphere by poisoning the soil with their chemicals. They've made the tomato without fish genes a rarity at your local supermarket and it's nearly impossible to find corn that hasn't been cross-pollinated with one of their GMO crops. They pretty much own most of the law makers in the western world and have successfully sued farmers for growing crops that were cross-pollinated with their own "patented" crops via the wind in Canada! They're behind the movement in Congress to tag all livestock and register the farm (or property) on which they're kept as well as trying to destroy all non-GMO seed stocks. They've all but put the small farmer out of business forcing them to buy their dangerous poisons or be pushed out of the markets not unlike the cattle barons of the 19th century using local law and other nefarious tactics to force their competition to succumb. Unfortunately, their company (like the EVIL company portrayed in The Omen) will end up killing everyone if it has its way. But lawmakers mostly don't care about what happens after they've left office or what their grand-children have to deal with when they're gone.

Name the most EVIL Corp. in the world as you know. This isn't an argument, it's strictly opinion. There are many contenders, like Dow Chemical or Microsoft, many many companies have EVIL agendas, even Nestlé has an EVIL history. Let's learn about what these companies do or have done to make them EVIL. I'll assume we all know what EVIL is... I'm talking true evil, not the fun we have with the concept here on the forum.

[SNiped]

Volkswagon, They made cars for the SS and Made hitler a personal car if i remember correctly. He was possibly one of the most evil men in history and the SS the most Evil Organisation, so if a compny makes them cars then surely they must be evil.

[~Dave]

Microsoft, no one needs that much money + the wait for halo3

[csp4.0]

The most evil corporation in the world? let me think ... ... ... ...
Ah-Ha! I would think the US Military/Area-51/Russian Military etc, any 'thing' that manufactures weapons of mass destruction i.e. strategic nukes, tactical ones are ok though. And the Iraq? Iran military for trying to make bio warheads filled with anthrax or whatever they put in them.

[Sprnknwn]

I would go for popular ones like Microsoft, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, etc. but probably the most evil corporations are in the pharmaceutic industry, the ones who don't let medicines against VIH, among lots of other diseases, get to african countries. People die just because they don't want to lose a single dollar. It's such a direct relation that you could call them murderers.

[galexcd]

I agree with Dave, Microsoft id the most evil, but my reasons are slightly different:

1) They are responsible for the worst operating systems known to man
2) They stole GUI from Apple
3) They deserve a lifetime in HELL!

[reelkill]

Umbrella lol just playin I am in the middle of playing RE4 right now, I guess I would have to say it could possibly be any pharmaceutical company as Sprnknwn had stated. I think that they hide some cures from people so that they can give people a treatment instead of a cure.With the treatment they then charge large amounts of money for the drug. They still charge large amounts of money for a drug years after the research is completed and they price it not only to pay for all the workers that diagnose problems with people but also to make a large profit thus causing people who do not have the money to pay for treatment to either have to find a way to get it or die,if the illness that person has is bad enough to kill them. The idea that they hide cures is more of a conspiracy theory than it is a fact. The idea that people are dieing all over the world from treatable diseases and curable diseases is a fact. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most profitable industries there are in the world and these are the reasons that I think that they are the most evil corporation in the world.

[robocz033]

microsoft because they are the most lazy, money hogging, technical-support-free, foreign, non-understandable, stealing pigs. i mean, who needs fricken 50billion dollars?!?!?!?!?! its a complete waste of money. he didnt even pioneer computing, apple did that then he copied from them...the only reason he is ahead is because of excessive advertising and contracts with companies.

[truefusion]

~Dave, on May 19 2007, 04:15 AM, said:

+ the wait for halo3

That can be said for any game-making company. [hr=noshade] [/hr]
Anywho, the start of an evil corporation is one that started with the want of personal gain, to become (filthy) rich—this tends to be at the expense of others. There are so many companies out there that can cure world hunger. Imagine what they can do if they joined together to make this wolrd a better place! Techniqually, many, if not most, are evil to an extent; some worse than others. Some of the judgment you'll find in this topic , if not most or all, is based on the current knowledge the person has of companies and how it has affected them; for if you don't know about one (which could be worse than the company you say is the worst), you can't claim otherwise. I can't truthfully claim which one is the worst, but i can truthfully claim that there are many evil ones out there.

[street]

The most evil corporation in the world would have to be the tobacco indstury they still sell cigarates even thou they know they are bad for people and they are still putting in all that stuff in there not caring about others health,Another will have to be the oil company's they are burning in a whole in my bank account with the price for gas now of these days gas is $4 dollars back then when it was $1 we was saying it was expensive now i wish it was back to that price.

[RedAlert]

*deleted phrase here* Just because you don't like a company's product doesn't make it evil. It has to actually do EVIL things for it to be EVIL. Ever think that microsoft makes a lot of money because their products are insanely popular? No? Well, get out.

Notice from jlhaslip:

Flaming is against the rules. Verbal warning.

[anarchy]

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Redmond, WA - Microsoft purchased evil from Satan for $2.7 billion after many months of tough negotiations.

"We've been after Satan for some time," said CEO Steve Ballmer. "Negotiations were tough, but I think both Microsoft and the Prince of Darkness are happy with this deal."

Microsoft already controls 15% of the evil market, and with this purchase that number nears 100%. The Department of Justice voiced concerns over one corporation controlling so much evil, and launched investigations.

"We feel that there are real opportunities with evil, and that when evil is integrated into our next generation of Windows products consumers will appreciate evil on their desktop," said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. "Businesses haven't been able to fully realize their evil potential. With evil integrated into Office XP, corporations big and small will begin to see enhanced evil productivity."

"Evil is a real growing market," market strategist Frank Dresgan of Merrill Lynch explained. "Microsoft is a little late in the game, but even when they enter a market late they still tend to dominate. I think we'll see the same results with evil."

"I've been dealing with Microsoft for some time," Lucifer said. "I've been at this evil thing for millions of years, and wanted a way out. I considered an IPO, but then Steve-O and Billy came along and told me about their 'Evil Everywhere' plan. I just couldn't refuse."

Evil was founded by Satan close to the beginning of time. It has been growing steadily ever since, although most of the growth has accelerated in the past five years with the development of the Internet. Satan plans to retire to a small island in the Bahamas and write a column for the local newspaper.

Notice from truefusion:

http://www.bbspot.co..._Buys_Evil.html

[srujanlive]

HALLIBURTON my friends. Also Monsato which led to farmer's suicides in India and DOW Chemical are the worst. Microsoft may be evil in software sense of the term but it does not kill people and destroy lives. The companies I mentioned do that very very willingly. As for pharmaceutical companies, they are emerging as frontrunners for the title with their refusal to reduce the costs of lifesaving drugs and trying to profit from them at the cost of lives of millions in third world countries. They even won't allow others to manufacture them at a cheaper cost. How sick is that?

Edited by srujanlive, 20 May 2007 - 01:09 PM.

[Tetraca]

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2) They stole GUI from Apple

Not to mention Apple stole the GUI from XEROX PARC...and then started to sue every Tom, *BLEEP*, and Harry that made a GUI after them...

Every corporation is evil. The goal is simply to make money, and all corporations cut corners and try to screw their customers. Microsoft sells substandard products through Joseph McCarthy style FUD, Apple sells DRMed products, Oil companies sell knowingly destructive fossil fuels, Tobbacco companies sell a substance with no benefit to humans, they're all equally evil and manipulative.

[osknockout]

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Every corporation is evil. The goal is simply to make money,

So are you saying that capitalism is - dare I say - a necessary evil?

@anarchy: Now THAT's a news article worthy of mention. *applause*

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Just because you don't like a company's product doesn't make it evil.

Evil is a very vaguely defined term shaped by one's prejudices and opportunity in context. Who knows? For some people, Mother Teresa might have been considered evil because she advocated helping those with less - even though they'll be suffering for all of their lives. Besides, we are talking about superlatives here. We can't ALL agree on one thing as 'evil'.

I have a three-way tie. Exxon-Mobil for leading the leeching of the economic power of nearly every first-world country and reducing the living standards of the world.
Haliburton... for supplying and giving impetus to the local superpower of the world to go destroy the livelihood and security of millions of innocent people.
And of course Monsato for reasons already mentioned above.

[galexcd]

Tetraca, on May 20 2007, 07:53 AM, said:

Not to mention Apple stole the GUI from XEROX PARC...and then started to sue every Tom, *BLEEP*, and Harry that made a GUI after them...

Xerox had nothing to do with making GUI.... do you not even know what gui is?

xerox GAVE (important keyword-- not stole) the COMPUTER (important keyword-- not gui) to apple. From there apple came up with gui, which ms stole from apple because all they had was DOS...

[kwantum]

not really a corporation, but the United States government if any of you ever get the time, should watch any of em 9/11 doccies or the moon landing doccies or any significant event in American history or in which America was involved

[serverph]

any votes for INTEL? can they now be classified as EVIL after this latest spat with Negroponte and the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project? they undermine the concept, then they now copy it! (Intel has it's Classmate version as shown below, to compete with the OLPC project).


so a thumbs-down to INTEL. TRULY EVIL in my dictionary. btw, i'm mighty happy with my AMD machine for years now.

[yachts360]

The Most Evil Corporation would have to be Microsoft. They'll do anything to make a buck. They'll rip off the average hard working middle class American just to get a head. I think it's wrong what they do. They make so much money and then people starve on the streets of America. They are the closest thing to a Monopoly as it gets.

If I could add another one it would be Exxon Mobile. They rip off everyone. The Gas Prices are outragous and they just reported their highest earnings ever. It's not fair. Take Advangtage of the American just because they can. Oil is an essential Resource and they control 90% of the market.

It's Ridiculous how much power these companys have.

[Smack]

Wow, no one mentions Enron? They cheated people out of money and the atmosphere in that company was that of paranoia! They had their employees too scared to take a vacation or even a day off for fear of being fired not to mention all the money they stole and etc they did..

And kwantum, don't judge the U.S. government on some radical crazy person's theory, but judge them on what they actually do.

[Renaissance]

Monsanto is definitely up there in terms of evil, but I'm going to mention one that should not go unsaid: Disney.

As many of you may know Disney, a company with high family standards, "hires" 3rd world workers, and maintains what constitutes sweatshops. Whenever they are confronted about it they always down play it or use the rationale that they are employing the needy. Here is a little research I did back in highschool.

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Information has been collected from www.newint.org
For more facts go to http://www.newint.or...8/contents.html

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Total Disney Revenue (1997)
Broadcasting – $6.52 billion (29%)
Includes TV and Radio production.

Theme Parks/Resorts – $5.01 billion (22%)
Includes theme parks, hotels, cruise line and real estate entertainment development.

Creative content – $10.93 billion (49%)
Includes film production and distribution, feature animations, home videos, TV, live theatre and consumer products.

TOTAL REVENUE: $22.47 billion

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The Boss
Disney Chairman Michael Eisner’s current 10-year contract gives him a yearly salary of $750,000, plus bonus up to a maximum of $15 million a year according to financial performance, plus shares worth approximately $550-$600 million.

Theme Park Worker
Walt Disney World (Orlando, Florida)
Starting salary: $5.95 an hour, after 3 years: $13,541 a year
Disneyland (Paris, France).
Average yearly salary: $13,000 to $15,000.
Disney’s total theme park income (1997): $1.13 billion

Third World Worker
Contractors producing Disney-branded clothing in Haiti
Average hourly wage: 28 cents
How much time it would take the average Haitian garment worker to earn what Michael Eisner earns in one hour: 156 years.

[Saint_Michael]

I will have to say every single gas and oil company in the world due to the fact that they are causing most of the problems in the world and instead of giving back they keep on taken, so I will be glad that one day all the oil and the gas will be gone and put every single own in the poor house (US owners). OF course all the evil corporations that decide to be cheap and move their business elsewhere for cheap and cost effective labor (US Owners). Of course there is that one evil corporation that is very evil Is the Evil Society the things they do make Bush look good .

[Watermonkey]

I've given this thread free reign for a while now but I feel I must interject for a moment to remind some of the posters that I'm asking for a Corporation, not an entire industry and certainly not an entire government, not even a branch of a government. No matter how evil you think the military industrial complex or the CIA or whatever is, they're not public companies. Please tell us all what public company you think deserves to be called "The most evil company ever". And please, no more Microsoft or computer manufacturers... No one's actually dying when they use MS Office! I haven't heard of an Intel CPU killing someone. And, though thankfully, no one's actually mentioned it yet, please don't say that Smith and Wesson or Glock or any other firearms manufacturer is evil. Any weapon or more accurately, potential weapon is an inanimate object (capable of being used for good or evil) until human contact is made, and it's still an inanimate object until a chemical reaction is initiated from the actions of said human (in a couple cases dogs have fired shotguns and rifles too, but only because the proper safety precautions weren't taken).

Evil can be defined as

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evil |ˈēvəl| adjective profoundly immoral and malevolent : his evil deeds | no man is so evil as to be beyond redemption. • (of a force or spirit) embodying or associated with the forces of the devil : we have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit. • harmful or tending to harm : the evil effects of high taxes. • (of something seen or smelled) extremely unpleasant : a bathroom with an evil smell. noun profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, esp. when regarded as a supernatural force : the world is stalked by relentless evil | good and evil in eternal opposition. • a manifestation of this, esp. in people's actions : the evil that took place last Thursday. • something that is harmful or undesirable : sexism, racism, and all other unpleasant social evils. PHRASES the evil eye a gaze or stare superstitiously believed to cause material harm : he gave me the evil eye as I walked down the corridor. the Evil One archaic the Devil. put off the evil day (or hour) postpone something unpleasant for as long as possible. speak evil of slander : it is a sin to speak evil of the king. DERIVATIVES evilly |ˈēvəl(l)ē| adverb evilness noun ORIGIN Old English yfel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch euvel and German Übel.

So, now that you really have a good sense of what evil is, let's look at the definition of a public corporation:

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a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. • dated humorous a paunch. ORIGIN late Middle English : from late Latin corporatio(n-), from Latin corporare ‘combine in one body’ (see corporate ).

With both those words in clear definition, please proceed. I'll give my number two most evil company now: Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) of AR (Little Rock, I believe), would be very high on my list. Politically they are implicated in the laundering of dirty Clinton money gained from the infamous Mena operation to supply arms for drugs and cash in South America and were highly influential in boosting the Clintonistas to the White House. Further, they are one of the biggest violators of humane animal husbandry, and a heavyweight political manipulator ever since their anointed representative in Washington, William Jefferson Clinton, was elected to the white house. Read more at http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/...o/monsanto.html because there's just too much to quote for this post.

[Matt2]

I believe that all tobacco companies should die!!!!shift11111111one111eleven They are evil, they know that smoking causes lung cancer, diseases, causes deaths and yet they still sell it. It's disgusting. Their advertising is targeting young people, and getting them into smoking too. They make big bucks from this, so I doubt they are going to stop, but they are still very very evil. Youth support are paying out, to try and help deal with the issue of smoking effecting young people.

Also petrol companies are evil, not as evil as the tobacco companies, but still evil. They are buying out all of the good inventions that will help save the planet, whilst meaning we will have no use for petrol. Someone needs to make an invention and make sure they don't let anyone else buy it and then make big bucks and then buy the petrol companies.

That's just my 2 cents

[kushan10]

Wouldn't it depend on what you would call "evil", I mean if you were on a "bad" guy's side then you would take it as the actual "good" guys are evil or if you are a good guy then the bad guys would be evil, what I'm trying to say is that isn't it kind of a point of view? Someone might think Coca Cola is an evil cooperation whereas another wouldn't think the same way. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.