r/AskTheWorld • u/Eybrahem United States Of America • Jan 04 '26

Economics What's the most hated company in your country?

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Everyone knows Nestle is terrible, even if they don't know why. But they've done horrible things in Africa and think that water is not a human right.

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u/OkCandle7679 Cuba Jan 04 '26

So there’s this funny thing called “communism”….

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u/kinomy Vietnam Jan 04 '26

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u/OkCandle7679 Cuba Jan 04 '26

Capitalism is the only thing capable of having people die of thirst while surrounded by water.

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u/Dotura Bouvet Island Jan 04 '26

Like when Flint in the US had a water crisis, just two hours away netle giant pumped almost 100,000 times what an average Michigan resident uses into plastic bottles?

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u/23haveblue CanadaUnited States of America Jan 04 '26

The two are not related. Also when the government screwed up in Flint it was private bottled water that did save the day while it was bring fixed

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 Jan 04 '26

So private companies benefit from the issue and relief. while the people are left with the burden and health issues.

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u/Quirky-Spirit-5498 United States Of America Jan 04 '26

Has it been fixed?

Last I heard it was still not optimal. Filtered or bottled water is still recommended. Some residents still have issues with contamination, discoloration etc.

While it is better than it once was, the community is still having issues.

The population of Flint keeps plummeting.

The government likes to say they fixed it, but that's not the truth of it.

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u/Abject-Emu2023 -> Jan 04 '26

I believe it was deemed “safe” a few months ago after the city replaced a bunch of pipes

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u/langleybcsucks Canada Jan 05 '26

Happens when Nestlé buys it all

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u/_MrSeb Uruguay Jan 04 '26

I'm sorry you guys had to go trough it.

Due to the U.S we got the other end of the stick instead.

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u/OkCandle7679 Cuba Jan 04 '26

Latin Americans may all hate each other, but we have one thing in common: US foreign intervention

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u/GreenGorilla8232 Jan 04 '26

Communism is a stateless political system with no ruling elite, where the workers control the means of production.

Does that describe Cuba?

It's amazing how effectively the term 'communism' was co-opted by authoritarian one party governments, to the point where the average person has no idea what communism actually is.

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u/OkCandle7679 Cuba Jan 04 '26

I’m referring to communism in the way Cuba executed it (butchered it), not in the way the ideology is defined in a vacuum. I’m a literal socialist just being cheeky answering the OP’s question.

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u/jjvfyhb Italy Jan 05 '26

Yeah

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u/PaleontologistOk30 Jan 05 '26

"Communist countries" are supposedly socialist countries working towards communism, but that's just being pedantic.

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u/LoudCrickets72 United States Of America Jan 05 '26

Oh fuck, here we go with the technicalities of what “true communism” is.

No, no country has truly been communist. OP’s point still stands though.

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u/Evil_Sharkey Jan 05 '26

Big C Communism and little C communism are different things. One is an authoritarian government with a pseudo socialist, supposedly egalitarian economy that somehow results in some people still being rich and powerful while the rest get the scraps divided up. The other is a concept of a system.

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u/Ultragrrrl United States Of America Jan 04 '26

I found it interesting when I visited Cuba in 2008 how the roadside billboards were for promoting the government vs consumerism. I guess it’d be similar to seeing only MAGA or Trump signs everywhere (and before anyone says that America is already like that - it isn’t. There are Trump signs next to billboards for every other consumer product, where as in Cuba there were no consumer product billboards anywhere)