• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    Nestle is one of the most evil companies in existence. Why would you think they’d act any different? Stop buying their shit if you want to hurt them.

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      Yes.

      But also push for policy that would enact laws to clip their wings, punish, and eventually either bankrupt or set them straight for real.

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        The problem with Nestle is that’s a pretty long list. Whenever I buy something new I always need to check what the owner of the owner of the owner of the brand is, to make sure it isn’t Nestle or one of the other fucked up brands that seem to own everything.

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          Most Nestlé products, no matter the brand have their logo with the bird in the nest on the back. Smallish with the producer info.

          You have to actively look for it, but makes avoiding them a lot easier.

          I boycott them for 30 years now and even though they are everywhere, its not too big of an effort to avoid them.

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          A good method to avoid those is to shop at small local grocers and buy products that are fair trade. Especially for chocolate and coffee.

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      Their products are just crap in terms of quality, whether they are evil or not. Food from local producers is usually much better for the same price.

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    One of my favorite things about Nestlé is that five people can talk about how evil a company they are with examples and have it be five different things.

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    Nestle is renowned for their ability to just not give a shit about anything except profit.

    They’ve always been a scummy company

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    Nestle does not care about Ukraine

    What made you think they did?

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    Not only does Nestlé generally not care about humanity, they are also Swiss, so kinda built on war profiteering neutrality.

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    Keep me honest, if they are operating in Russia, does that mean the US can block them from doing business in the US?

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      No. Because they are also very very rich. So its impossible to be strict. Its just no way!

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    ukaine can fine this campanies mhile they are in russia, help them with money for defence and can dicourage doing business with russia

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    Or maybe them continuing business in Russia is worse for Russia than stopping it? (Dunno if this is sarcastic or not)

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      That the thing that I kinda have trouble understanding.

      The big multinationals are expert at extracting profits out of national economies and putting it in tax havens.

      If they boycott Russia and get replaced by Russian copies, wouldn’t the Russian state get a larger share of profits ?

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    A company, in principle, cannot care about anything but profit maximization. Nestle isn’t evil, it’s merely more brazenly expressive of the amoral nature of capitalist production.

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      You cannot abstain from morality as if it’s a choice YOU can make. Your actions on others make others assign your morality.

      Institutions that claim to be amoral do so to justify their evil.

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      Not sure why you are being downvoted. It’s the invisible hand of capitalism that tends to cause evil.

      If the current board of directors chose morality over profit, the shareholders would have an obligation to each other to oust the board and elect people who put profit first above all else.

      If any one CEO tries to put morality over profit, that CEO will be replaced with someone who makes profit-focused decisions.

      It’s all very impersonal as it is just a function of capitalism.

      If governments weren’t all bought and paid for, maybe they could make it less profitable for the company to be evil, which would be the only way to make a change.

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      They break contracts and break the law on purpose, as a company they should be bound to the law or forfeit profit, but governments are weak.

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        Eh, they basically are. It’s like the whole anti-Zuckerberg outrage. They’re just very visible examples, not some fundamentally different evil.