"Are you telling me that a corporation chose money over the safety of consumers?": Jacobin, Last Week Tonight, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on the murderousness of corporations

Early today, I came across the headline of an article in Jacobin: "Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit." That was in keeping with Last Week Tonight's broadcast on Sunday about PFAS, a class of chemicals that includes Teflon, which Dupont has kept producing and marketing despite its deadly effects on the public, their customers, and even their employees. Later, I watched the monologue by Stephen Colbert from the Late Show last night, where he commented on the statement by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen that the company "chooses profits over safety." As Colbert sarcastically said, "Are you telling me that a corporation chose money over the safety of consumers?" (Andrew Shields, #111words, 5 October 2021)

 

"Are you telling me that a corporation chose money over the safety of consumers?"