I was looking at my Freakouts of the Right list and noticed that I had this Evil Corps list on the same Excel file, different worksheet. So let’s wrap this up.
Worked on it a bit tonight, and here is what I have: 4 categories, 12 companies per category, 48 companies in total. I have zero problem admitting (a) there is an American bias to this list, (b) there is a “popularity” and recency bias to this list, and (c) there was a need for “representation selection” - for example, I could have put half of the American health insurance industry on this list, but settled for Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Same goes for corps such as McDonald’s, Walmart, etc.
Tell me what you think, please do your own Googling if you don’t know a company (I’ll put the effort to do links in the contest thread), and if you have any replacements, let me know who you’re replacing and with whom, with an eye to the three things listed above: If you want to remove the one representative of the American fast food industry for another company, you’d better make a good case as to why.
I have “seeds”, but this list is not ranked according to such. And “seeds” will just be my opinion, nothing more.
| Seed | Resource Extraction | Finance and Tech | Industrials | Miscellaneous |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Standard Oil (Exxon/Mobil/Chevron/etc) | Goldman Sachs | Farben | British East India Company |
| 2 | United Fruit | Microsoft | Dow Chemical | Nestle |
| 3 | De Beers | Halliburton | Philip Morris | |
| 4 | Monsanto | Apple | Pfizer | WalMart |
| 5 | British Petroleum | Cargill | News Corp/Fox Corp | |
| 6 | Texaco | Amazon | Koch Industries | Purdue Pharmaceutical |
| 7 | Union Carbide | JP Morgan Chase | General Motors | Royal African Company |
| 8 | Anglo American South Africa Ltd | ATT | Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe | Disney |
| 9 | Tata Steel | Drexel-Burnham Lambert | Colt’s Manufacturing Company | Amway |
| 10 | Aramco (Saudi Arabia oil co) | Black Rock | US Steel | Dutch West India Company |
| 11 | Syncrude (Albertan Oil Sands) | Comcast | Monsanto | Enron |
| 12 | Glencore PLC (current largest mining co) | Blue Cross/Blue Shield | Bayer | McDonalds |