unethical business practices theme
There is a businessman or corporation that, in their ruthless pursuit of the bottom line, engage in activities that are clearly considered unethical. The activities may or may not be legal.
Examples
In futurama1x13 "Fry and the Slurm Factory", the Slurm factory was an evil corporation that ruthlessly exploited its poor "Grunka-Lunka" thralls in order to produce an extraordinarily unhealthy but addictive Slurm cola which it marketed vigorously to the public.
77 total · 3 choice · 62 major · 11 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror7x01 | choice | At the center of the story is the idea that there is a new technology on which someone may be completely dependent on for their life, and that a corporation exploits this ruthlessly to squeeze them for money. |
| movie: Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985) | choice | The Network 23 television network was using a new form of subliminal advertising, called blibverts, that stopped channel surfing to increasing their ratings, but the ads caused some people to spontaneously explode. |
| movie: The Stuff (1985) | choice | A corporation was marketing an addictively delicious ice cream-like dessert that had the minor problem that it was a living organism that turns people into bizarre zombie-like creatures, before consuming them from the inside out. |
| ahp2x08 | major | The callous businessman Mr. Brenner had no compunctions about throwing two old ladies out of their home in order to turn a nice profit. |
| futurama1x13 | major | The Slurm factory was an evil corporation that oppressed their Grunka-Lunkas workers and sold unhealthy Slurm cola to the public. |
| movie: Alien (1979) | major | Ash was under secret orders to bring a potentially dangerous specimen back to a corporation and the crew was deemed expendable. |
| movie: Alien 3 (1992) | major | The Weyland-Yutani corporation plotted to capture the alien creature and turn it into biological weapons. This was at great risk to society, apart from the biological weapons, because there was a good chance it would get loose on Earth and paracitize everyone. |
| movie: Aliens (1986) | major | The Weyland-Yutani Corporation higher ups knowingly risked the colonists and Marine rescue crew's lives in an effort to obtain dangerous alien parasites for the purpose of using them to design profitable new bio-weapons. |
| movie: Avatar (2009) | major | The RDA mining corporation having no qualms about wiping out the Na'vi aliens in order to mine the valuable element unobtanium was at the heart of the story. |
| movie: Bloodshot (2020) | major | The Rising Spirit Tech corporation turned Ray into a nanobot infused killing machine prototype with intentions of selling him, and others like him, to the highest bidders. |