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316 - Bayer AG: The Most EVIL Corporation in the World?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Evil Corporations of Sci-Fi

The idea of an evil corporation is deeply embedded in the landscape of contemporary culture, populating films, novels, video games and more. Fiction is littered with these evil corporations like severance's, Lumen, a clear allegory for Amazon. In the 1950s, popular culture still largely imagined the state and not non-governmental private agencies as the enemy of the citizen. As described in William White's 1956 book on management, The Organization Man, he argued the new class of American worker was now committed to groupthink.

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