The Price of a Paint Job
Literally the largest greenhouse gas emitter in human history.
State-owned revenue source enabling human rights abuses.
Workers in labor camps face poor sanitation, unpaid wages, and passport confiscation.
Aramco - Aston Martin
Laid off 55,000 employees in a period where the stock rose 175%.
Disabled unrelated printer functions unless users bought unneeded, expensive color ink refills.
Has settled lawsuits for predatory pricing and fake "sales" to drive purchases.
HP - Ferrari
Wealthiest per capita nation on earth, uses French tax dollars to fund public services.
Monaco
Founded in 1977 to write software for the CIA.
Owned by a Right-Wing Megadonor. Over $60 million given to figures including Trump, Marco Rubio, and Tim Scott.
Was paid $240 million by the State of Oregon for a failed healthcare website, settled the resulting fraud case by trapping the state into using more of its software.
Oracle - Red Bull
Profited off of the Sudanese Civil War.
Stole indigenous land in Sarawak.
Used bribery and lobbying to maintain its monopoly.
Petronas - Mercedes
Grand Prix was cancelled in 2011 after 35 civilians were killed by the government for demanding democratic reforms.
Kept laborers building the F1 facilities in labor camps and confiscated their passports.
Hired foreign mercenaries to suppress citizens as the military was seen as too sympathetic.
Tear gassed civilians near the track during the 2012 Grand Prix, drivers said F1 should "stay out of politics".
Bahrain
Knowingly allowed criminal "ghost profiles" to inflate user counts. Senate investigation showed accounts were used to pay for human trafficking.
Hid a data breach of 8.2 million users for 4 months.
Fined $175 by the CFPB for ignoring users fraud claims and actively blocking them from contacting live human support.
Visa Cash App - Racing Bulls
Settled $6 billion dollar lawsuit over fixed fees and colluding with competitors.
Blocked donations to WikiLeaks while still processing payments to the KKK.
Paid a settlement to 46 million brits for charging inflated "swipe fees".
Mastercard - McLaren
Blocked EU weapons shipments to Ukraine after 2022 Russian invasion, continues to purchase Russian energy.
Over the last 15 years has lost judicial independence, press freedom, and electoral fairness.
The only EU member nation to not be classified as a democracy.
Hungary
Penalized $3.8 million for allowing money laundering in Lithuania.
Built an in-house AI named "Sherlock" for fraud prevention, which immediately froze thousands of accounts for over 60 days with no human customer service.
"Messy" bookkeeping prevented auditors from being able to track the source of $580 million in revenue, delaying their acquisition of a proper banking license for 3 years.
Revolut - Audi
Fined $180 million by the EPA for not reporting systemic tailpipe defects.
Second largest global lobbyist (behind Exxon) against electric vehicle mandates.
Recently spent $60 million in "panic raises" to kill unionization campaign in Kentucky plant.
Toyota Gazoo Racing - Haas
Conducted ethnic cleansing (starvation and relocation) of 100,000 Armenians in 2023.
Ranks 164th out of 180 countries on the global press freedom index. Frequently jails journalists on charges of "hooliganism".
Simultaneously a NATO member, Russian energy client, and Israeli weapons customer.
Azerbaijan
Relatively inoffensive Austrian water purification company.
BWT - Alpine
Avoided Australian tax law for years and reincorporated in Britain to shield wealth.
Created AI project management software associated with micro-management, employee surveillance, and internal peer pressure.
Fired 10% of staff to fund AI pivot.
Atlassian - Williams
Mandatory death penalty for drug possession. As little as 500 grams of cannabis, punishment is death by hanging.
The government owns 80% of all land and controls nearly all housing.
Implemented facial recognition surveillance tech across the country by 2020.
Singapore