cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2859765
So far, I’ve only heard of nation-states committing atrocities whose gov’t officials end up in the Hague…
How about companies, whose CEOs and stockholders have a role in committing such large scale crimes who deserve the wall?
Edit: Bonus points if you include a death toll…
From what I’ve read on wikipedia’s Nestle
In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by “mothers in [low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources”, with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.[47]
East India Company and slave trade
Coca Cola and death squads
Chiquita and South America
All Fortune 500 companies and all developing nations
IBM’s adding machines were used to organize the holocaust.
They also provided support, it wasn’t just their machines.
Edit: support in integrating files from the Netherlands into the German file system or something. I forgot the exact details.
Union Carbide Bhopal disaster 3,787–16,000 deaths
They were bought by Dow in 2001. Dow also manufactured agent orange, napalm, asbestos and DBCP.
The Hudson’s Bay Company. Nowadays they’re mostly known as an overpriced generic department store, but historically they were deeply involved in the exploitation of aboriginal people for the commercial gain of wealthy Europeans in what is now known as Canada.
Dole fruit, the overthrow and annexation of the nation of Hawaii
