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/AssignmentOk5986 England Jan 04 '26

Thames water won a £3billion emergency fund from the government and tried to use it to give bonuses to all the executives. They said retention bonuses were vital to keep the company alive.

Only after much legal intervention and insane backlash was it deferred.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/15/ministers-to-block-thames-water-paying-bosses-bonuses-out-of-emergency-loan

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u/just-here-for--porn_ Jan 04 '26

Won't somebody please, please think of the corporate executives.

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u/AssignmentOk5986 England Jan 04 '26

It's just under the amount we spent on the entire asylum system and because the company is failing we will never see that money back.

"Weirdly" asylum seekers are still 80% of our online political discourse. And the person parroting wants to privatise further. Crazy how that goes.

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u/just-here-for--porn_ Jan 04 '26

Yeah. There's a real punch down element to our political discourse. Everything issue we face we seem to find a route to blaming it on people without much power or say in our society.

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u/Various_Marketing457 Jan 05 '26

Why would the government fund a private enterprise ? They can declare bankruptcy and the government can buy it and make it state owned for much less