Sunday, December 19, 2010

Gordon's scale of corporate evil - 2nd edition

A post on why Facebook, Netflix and Amazon will join the Google-Apple truce reminded me it's time to update Gordon's 15 point scale of publicly traded corporate evil.

Here's the current list, with notes on who's moved up and down ...

  1. Philip Morris: 15 (defines the upper bound)
  2. Goldman Sachs: 14 (up - working for SPECTRE).
  3. Exxon: 13 (global warming advocacy)
  4. AT&T, Verizon: 12 - up two
  5. Facebook: 11 (down 1 - still most evil tech company)
  6. For profit health insurance companies: 11
  7. Microsoft: 10
  8. Average publicly traded company: 8
  9. Google: 5 (down one)
  10. Apple: 5
  11. CARE International: 1 (They're not a PTC, so this is merely a non-evil reference point)