re: What was the most evil actio done by a private corporation?

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wait, Enron was a private corporation?

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There are at least two meanings to "private" in connection with its description of a corporation. One, "privately held" which distinguishes the corporation from a company that is publicly traded, and another meaning that distinguishes it from the "public sector," i.e. government or government owned. It seems that the OP is using "private" in the latter sense, and it is a correct usage.

Enron was a public traded, private corporation.

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Sad but I've actually seen where the bean counters assign dollars to lives and do metrics to decide risk.... how in the frick does 470 mm cover thousand of lost lives? IT DOES NOT! even in India.

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That happens every single day of our lives without us even thinking about it. The entire profession of actuarial science is based on this.

It might be a little cold and cruel, but in an economic sense, every single one of our lives has a dollar value. It's why speed limits aren't 25 MPH on every single road around the country and why we don't spend $5 million in healthcare on a 90 year old who's had a quadruple bypass.

Planned Parenthood has killed a ton of people and dressed it up as a 'right'

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WTF though about familes that had to burry babies and those much younger 300k wont bring them back

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Of course it won't. And by that same line of thinking it could almost be argued that since no sum of money can bring them back why should recompense be paid at all? The fact is that those payments aren't made for the dead. They're made for the living. That maybe, just maybe, with these added resources you can move on and live a life that would make the deceased proud.

Back on topic, though, my vote would be for either the East or West India Companies for propagating opium production, encouraging the slave trade, and agitating war across two separate continents to protect their interests.

Pretty sure Enron and Monsanto are/ publicly owned corporations.

Johns-Manville and Raybestos come to mind as far as publicly held corps.

Historically speaking:

1. East/West India Companies
2. Phillip Morris
3. Union Carbide
4. Standard oil
5. Subprime financial companies (took down the entire US economy costing trillions)

I would say the single act of funding fraudulent research to argue against legitimate research proving cigarettes are cancerous was the most evil act in the last century.

Dow chemical killed several thousand in Bhopal.

sadly buy but id mostly misunderstood, you do... HATS OFF but only do we remember its our cross to carry and as I've said I'm no newbie to this field , 25+ yrs, about to hand off it up and it scares me what's next....even though I trained most it gets watered down........::clasty: