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[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, I totally agree with you & support this post's endeavour, actually I felt bad about my (very indirect) contribution.

It's just that rich owners or very profitable firms (especially in a field where other competitors don't achieve the same financial results) usually have a lot of immoral (but legal) practices. All of them count, eg pushing on local municipalities to lower their fees/taxes in exchange for company's "investment in their own company" (??) or threatening to go next door, exploiting the labour force, forcing suppliers into vertical integrations, etc. That just fucks everybody & it's just an additional wealth transfer bcs of a position of power or even corruption (no intrinsic value added).

But again, I absolutely agree, identifying & cutting out nazi-aficionado megacorps is (atm) more important than cutting out imperialist-unregulated-market-enthusiast megacorps (which are the reason we have a nazi problem tho!).

But identifying such companies is a bit hard bcs they do have strong PR departments (or consultants) that monitor & prohibit such affiliations (bcs of tangible direct threat to revenue). Eg you can envision that not too long ago a nazi-salute in USA would be the immediate downfall of a company. Now it isn't. Europe isn't at that bar yet so finding out who (& how) supports political pastries hellbent on doing autocratic harm for it's own power is hard.
That's why I decided to post my two cents about (additionally!) identifying evil megacorps by their profit margins or owners.