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I hope the converse "don't buy this European product" is okay too.

[The original title "My Smartbox Group complaint, not posted on LinkedIn" didn't seem fitting enough for this community.]

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[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is always great to warn people against bad European companies too. We have plenty of people and companies who are as bad or worse than in the US.

Nestle is objectively one of if not the worst companies in the world apparently devoted to almost exclusively doing evil. Spotify is also terrible, Unilever had done some bad shit apparently, our many of our auto companies are also not good, etc... Many of our companies would literally kill to get American labor laws here and have spent billions Union busting and lobbying/bribing against workers.

[โ€“] arsCynic@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah once I got to know of what Nestlรฉ does I stopped buying anything related to them. The longer I live the more I become convinced that it is indeed the sociopaths who rise to the top and pretty much run "everything".

[โ€“] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

One of the most important things I learned about in primary school was Nestlรฉ's crimes. I've been boycotting them for more than half of my life now.