Name the top ten entire industries that cannot be trusted.

[Democrats_win]

Here's mine, in order of least trusted:

1. Insurance industry
2. Credit Card industry
3. Organized religion
4. MSM
5. Oil & Gas industry
6. Financial Investment industry
7. Toy industry
8. Used Car industry
9. Big Pharma
10. Lawyers

[cascadiance]

1. You left out voting machines companies!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. How could you forget advertising? Or political lobbying? n/t

[C_U_L8R]

3. Name ten that CAN be trusted

[rucky]

10. the Post Office?

:shrug:

[Mind_your_head]

25. They've done a helluva GREAT job, haven't they?

:applause: USPS :applause: :bounce: :bounce:

[jeff30997]

4. What about...

Defense industry?

[AnnieBW]

5. Here's more

Mining

Defense contracting

Republican think-tanks

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. "Entire" industries? A tad broad brush, wouldn't you say?

Or, maybe not, that's how we're all expected to think now, isn't it? Nuance is for losers. :hi: MKJ

[-..__...]

7. Porn...

Some of those "barely legal" types could be my mother.

And some of those 'Hugh!' monsters of man-slab that they brag about would barely pass unnoticed in any locker room or gang-shower I've ever been in. :shrug:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. hey i love some porn

most of it is poor quality, dammit. one of the most profitable companies in LA is owned and run by women. so. . . . .

[-..__...]

13. Yeah... but it kind'a sucks...

when you click on "Beach Babes of Ventura Beach" and you get "Coal Miners Daughters of the Ukraine"... just saying B-)

[bananas]

8. Nuclear energy industry

famous for its use of shills, has hired one of the sleaziest PR firms to catapult the propoganda.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. lawyers are not an industry

many of us try to be lubricants for society, to solve problems, to make thins better.


ok I am biased, but . . . . .

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Right on, Antifaschits...

I've worked around lawyers for 32 years. Some have done a lot of good. Some are greedy bastards. One is my daughter (although I've never worked with her), and I KNOW she can be trusted.

[whoneedstickets]

23. Lubricants? did you really choose that word !?

Why, cause it hurts less to get ...... when you've got one?

I've really got nothing against lawyers, but you set yourself up for that.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

30. lubricants is right

we make society's wheels turn. we ease problems, we protect against the government seizing and searching, we keep bullies under control. yes, we lubricate the workings.

[MilesColtrane]

12. I would add...

...the music industry.

Dr. Hunter Thompson said it best:

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

[Sabriel]

15. Big Tobacco

"It's good for you! Smoke some today!"

[Initech]

16. Here's my 10:

1. Marketing & Advertising
2. Credit Card Companies
3. Auto
4. Oil / Gas
5. Health Care
6. Toy Industry
7. Banking
8. Investment
9. Insurance
10. Arms

[Hoof Hearted]

17. The first one has to be pharma for me, with meat at a close second

1. Pharma
2. Meat
3. "Defense" a.k.a. Military Industrial Complex
4. Wal*Mart (Not technically and industry I know but might as well be)
5. "Debt Consolidation"
6. Insurance
7. Oil, Gas and Coal
8. Investment
9. Rent-To-Own and similar predators
10. Tobacco

[Bennyboy]

18. Mine are (seems we agree on a lot of them)

1. Insurance industry
2. Credit Card industry
3. Tobacco industry
4. oil services/war support
5. Oil & Gas industry
6. Alcohol
7. Check cashing
8. Used Car industry
9. Big Pharma
10. Lawyers
11. MD's that prescribe drugs for everything.

[lpbk2713]

19. Telcos are in bed with BushCo NSA.

And they want to do away with the internet as we know it.

[Raejeanowl]

20. My Comments

I assume Banking is somehow in there with Financial Investment and/or Credit Cards? And are Managed Health Care organizations are in with insurance? How about any energy or communication provider? Telemarketing? Airlines. Television news.

[whoneedstickets]

21. American Industry, Chinese Industry, Russian Industry...

...need I go on?

[Jed Dilligan]

22. 1. Prisons and law enforcement

fill in the rest.

[Heidi]

27. Totally agree.

They're their own economy these days, and their survival and growth are dependent on overcrowding. It's a serpent eating its tail, sadly.

ETA: I'm not implying that individual law enforcement officers are necessarily untrustworthy, but I do believe that the prison industrial complex, with its close ties to law enforcement, is untrustworthy.

[Jed Dilligan]

If I had to trust either a cop or an oil rig worker,

I'd probably go with the roughneck, though. All else being equal.

[leftofthedial]

24. 1, 2, and 6 are basically parts of the same industry

as is 3, in effect

[marions ghost]

26. hmmm...

this has me wondering what industry we CAN trust? I notice agriculture is not on anybody's list so far--so we trust that?

---------------------

OK--here' my list:


Corporate Media, Advertising
Petroleum Industry & Nuclear E
Food Industry
Big Pharma, Healthcare Industry
Financial Industries (all together)
Defense Industry
Legal Industry
Construction Industry
Fundamentalist Religion Industry*
Manufacturing

Edit--just have to add Telecommunications Industry :puke:
(--after seeing someone else mention it).

*Agree with the OP that religion has become an industry, although I can't say that ALL organized religion is bad.

Interesting to look at all that we don't trust here....:mad:

[Solon]

28. All industries that are for-profit cannot be trusted...

there is no democratic accountability, without that, there can be no trust.

[Vidar]

29. Oil, Armaments, Insurance, Banks/Credit, Pharmaceuticals,

Broadcasting, Automobile, Minng, Publishing. No particular order.

[TZ]

31. Stereotyping is fun!!

How about people who post utterly stupid lists like this? Of course every single person who works in these industries are EVUL shills! But what do I know, I'm only a stupid ignorant money grubbing scientist shill!!:puke:

[marions ghost]

33. Nobodys saying

everybody who works in these industries are evil. Don't take it so personally...it's not like any one person bears the responsibility to fix a sick system.

I think the point is that the American corporate sector has a LOT wrong with it. More wrong with it than we can really afford to support anymore.

A lot of people who work in these industries are all too well aware of the deficiencies. Why not talk about the ways they routinely exploit their customers, clients, & patients. :shrug:

PS --I'm married to a scientist "shill" who is not stupid or money-grubbing, but has no trouble defining the deep problems inherent in our current ways of doing bidness.

[DU GrovelBot]

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