How is this even possible.
When there aren’t proper protections in place for frivolous lawsuits. It costs them more to fight than it would to just advertise on the platform. Time for Ben & Jerry’s to make an “eat the rich” flavor with Musk’s face on the carton to advertise on X!
I mean, lawsuits are still one of the best ways for regular people to hold powerful entities accountable, so I’m super leery of anything that purports to stop “frivolous” lawsuits. I think the real underlying problem here is we’re expecting a for profit company to do the right thing in a market environment where doing the right thing isn’t the most profitable course of action. What we need to do is change the market environment or find someone that’s not a for profit corporation to do the right thing (both admittedly easier said than done).
I’m not too sure how well pork fat ice cream is gonna sell though…
I guess Unilever is just into that Nazi shit
…while also owning Ben and Jerry’s, which just put out a flavor in honor of Kamala Harris.
Like many massive corporations, Unilever would like to appeal to the Nazis and people on the left so that everyone buys one of the eighteen billion products they own every day.
The funny part would be running said flavor ad on X
which just put out a flavor in honor of Kamala Harris.
Such a progressive company, they even left Russia!
Close to three years late.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/unilever-completes-sale-russian-business-2024-10-10/
At least they did it, but also a reminder that corporations aren’t your friend.
Did you miss the part where they were an unethical megacorporation?
If true, they deserve a consumer boycott. But it’s almost impossible to stop buying Unilever products, the list is endless. List of brands
For those unaware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands
It’s staggering. It also shouldn’t be legal.
Yeah, breaking up Google and Amazon is cool, but how about Unilever, P&G, Nestle, etc.
The other side of it is that there is starting to be support for actually using the anti-trust laws that are on the books. Right now it’s mostly focused on Google and other tech companies, but there’s a huge problem in US markets with corporate consolidation.
Could antitrust laws be used here? I thought those were only for monopolies. I don’t think Unilever has monopolies, at least not in the U.S., hence the ridiculous amount of diversification instead.
But I would love to be wrong about that.
Under current legal interpretation absolutely not. Which is the problem that’s being looked at. It’s not legislation, it’s based on supreme court rulings, that could easily be overruled by congress. It’s going to be a very long debate before that happens sadly. Which is good on the side that setting a new anti-trust standard will absolutely rock the economy, so a snap decision isn’t in anyone’s interest. But at the same time, as we’ve seen from the pandemic inflation, without competition in the market, price gouging is getting out of hand. Market steering and manipulation by individual corporations is also getting out of hand, it just doesn’t generate the same level of public outrage.
“The economy” is going to wait to the last second to make any mandated changes anyway, then complain about not having enough time. I have no sympathy towards corporations. They can get their shit up to snuff inside of a year, or they can get fined into oblivion for noncompliance.
Edit: and to add, periods of time longer than one year incentivizes stalling for a different government.
Damn. This is not what Archimedes meant when he talked about moving the earth with a single lever.
Thanks. Just edited my post to include a link, then found your contribution.
Oh nice. I don’t use anything on those lists other then Ben and Jerry’s.
My list:
Ben & Jerry’s
Best foods
Dove
Q Tip
Vaseline
It’s doable. But probably pointless? Do we need to do evil entities chart vs P&G to see which is worse first?
Trader Joe’s ice cream is better
Hard agree, the coffee and chocolate are fantastic.
The only part of the flavor profile I don’t like is the anti-Union note we’ve been tasting lately.
Even so working there does not suck
The employees do seem happy and engaged.
I make $30 an hour putting potatoes on a shelf
They would deserve it regardless, but they’re even harder to avoid than Nestle
What is Unilever’s evil level, on a scale of Nestles?
Honestly for a multinational corp operating at the scale they operate that’s a pretty good report card. They look like boy scouts compared with Nestle, Coca cola etc
No mention of paying for death squads, no forced child slavery …
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t boycott, just that there’s a sliding scale and if you have to choose a Nestle product or a Unilever one is less evil.
Well with that in mind… At some point you have to buy stuff. Be it food, a car, a computer. Unfortunately there are barely any companies out there with clean hands, especially for things that mostly come from giant corporations. At some point you kinda gotta chose the lesser of two evils and be happy with that
They should start advertising again, but their ads only make fun of Musk/X. LOL
My brain is telling me there used to be an app that could scan barcodes and tell you about that company’s _______ profile.
A quick search returns, the now seemingly defunct, “GoodGuides”.
Anyone know of anything current?
I used Buycott, dunno if it’s still around but I used it just a few years ago
It’s currently on iOS for 1.99
Not the same but app Goods Unite Us shows political contributions of companies. !goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca
And I used to use one that showed I’d the company still did business in Russia but I can’t recall the name.
Thanks!
I haven’t used it in a while, so I don’t know if it still works, but the one I had is called Buycott.
Unilever continued operating in Russia long after the Ukraine invasion as well. Will have to check if they still do even
Coca-Cola (or cough Volkswagen) does not want you to see Nazi content or dead bodies and think of them.
Too late
Also Mercedes, Porsche, and many others
If anyone wondered when the late stage capitalism was going to hit: you missed it.
