My scale of corporate evil as of Dec 2009.
Top end of the scale is 15. It’s a linear scale.
- Philip Morris: 15
- Exxon: 13 (see link to #1)
- For profit health insurance companies: 11
- Goldman Sachs: 11
- AT&T and Verizon (tied): 10
- Microsoft: 10
- Facebook: 10
- Average publicly traded company: 8
- Apple: 5
- Google: 3
- CARE International: 1 (They’re not a PTC, so this is merely a non-evil reference point)
What’s your ranking?
Update 12/15/09: I added Exxon thanks to a comment and because of the Philip Morris synergy. Exxon’s astroturf climate change denialism (see also) campaign puts them in contention for the most evil publicly traded company of the modern era.
