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About Coca Cola, there is this very good talk by Melinda Gates about what they do in the developping world: http://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_french_gates_what_nonprofit...

I think enabling enterprising people to do business may be the most positive thing Coca Cola does to the world.

For Google, it seems making money is not the end game. What they do have many positive fallouts, but I'm not sure they move the 'real' world forward as much as Microsoft (while openly evil, they brought a unified computing environment to the world) or Apple or even Amazon.



With all due respect, and thank you for the reply - I feel compelled to say this:

I used to think like that, however after many years of observing the complicit abuse corporations like these preside over - I can no longer hold that opinion.


If it is about Coca Cola, I have an idea of what kind of abuse or corporate behavior it has, and I don't think 'sugared water' is much needed in our world (I don't deny the value, I just think it's not a need). But even for such a company, there are some positive fallouts.

In the ranking of evil companies, I'm not sure they even come close to the French water groups or big medical corporations, but I might just lack information.

Edit: for Amazon and Microsoft, of course I get how bad they can behave. Amazon more so when it comes to distribution level workers and general social behavior. Microsoft I don't kniw if there are people ignorant of what they did the last decades.




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