# Need suggestions for my "Most Evil Corps in History" game

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-my-most-evil-corps-in-history-game/963611 "2022-04-28T14:15:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-my-most-evil-corps-in-history-game/963611/39 "2022-12-10T07:01:49Z")

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I was looking at my [Freakouts of the Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/188) 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 | Google | Halliburton | Philip Morris |
| 4 | Monsanto | Apple | Pfizer | WalMart |
| 5 | British Petroleum | Facebook | 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 |

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