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Is Pepsico the World’s Worst Corporation — A Model For Exploiting Addicted Consumers?
Unlikely — it’s just one with its cousins Nestle, DuPont-Nemours, Purdue Pharma and all the many billionaires
I’m pretty sure that when people of the future look back on our era, they will consider those of us living today as primitive, small-minded, and materially deprived as we, today, look at people who lived back in the “Dark Ages.”
What will they call our times, the late 20th century and early 21st century?
The Corporate Age?
Or — the Addicted Age? Scamming Billionaire Times. The era of Planet Destruction and Self-Immolation.
Everyone who’s talking about justice: social justice, environmental justice, political justice, racial justice, health justice, workplace justice: they are all pointing at the same underlying problem.
In order to provide excess for themselves, the world’s billionaires and ultra high net-worth individuals rely upon economic and social systems that extract far too much from people, animals and plants, and the very planet itself.
All the people, animals, plants, and environments affected by these forms of injustice are diverse. But the underlying cause…
