This is an investigative journalistic website where articles get published everyday exposing corporate misconduct and the damages they’ve wrought onto our society and its many stakeholders.
So who am I, why am I doing this, why should you trust me?
My name is Aleeia. I graduated from the Eli Broad business college @ Michigan State University with a Supply Chain Management degree and a concentration in Economics.
In large part due to the prestige of the program, my alma matter spent a sizeable chunk of its credit hours teaching us how to become the most brutally efficient leaders possible in the corporate world.
And what were our lessons? Ruthless profit maximizing for the shareholders at the total expense of ethical morals.
We were taught how to lie, cheat, and steal from those less fortunate in order to gain just a tiny bit of extra profit.
For example, one of my professors taught us the importance of nickel and diming during a negotiation. A different professor taught us how to short a weak foreign currency to collapse their economy while giving you a massive ROI.
We all knew that this was plainly evil.
I distinctly remember one of my classmates saying “except for the seller, yeah…” after the first professor told us that everybody would be happier if you take as much money as possible during a large property purchase. And I remember thinking about how comically-James-Bond-villain-evil it is to destroy an entire nation’s economy just so you could make a couple of easy bucks.
But knowing this was evil didn’t stop us from internalizing those lessons, and it certainly didn’t stop us from using what we learned in the corporate world post-graduation.
My first job after graduating from undergrad was as an insurance sales agent for Colonial Life. I sold policies to people who couldn’t afford them by telling them that I was helping them “protect their paycheck” in the event of a job destroying injury. That was a bold face lie. We all know that insurance frequently won’t pay out its claims– I myself have dozens of articles about this very topic!
My second job after graduation was as a production planner for Dart Container. I told manufacturing plants around the world to maximize the production of single carryout containers from restaurants. Tubs of Styrofoam and plastic that would only be used once to store someone’s dinner for 30 minutes before being dumped to rot in a landfill for 500 years.
My third job was somehow even more ethical: Senior Planner at Collins Aerospace (a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies). That’s right, this bitch used to make missiles for a living!!!
I’m sure I don’t need to explain why defense contracting is an evil industry, and I don’t want to turn this into a rundown of my resume so I’ll just end this About Me section with thus:
I have spent years doing acts of barbarism at the behest of my corporate employers and have actively engaged in enough psychopathy to last a lifetime.
That’s who I am.
It’s also why you should trust me. Because I have the same education that the corpo leaders today got and I have a firsthand understanding of how exploitative our economic systems are.
What about my credentials as they relate to exposing corporate misconduct?
I didn’t take my first big boy steps into exposing corporate misconduct until 2019 when I made the YouTube video Nestle Hates Poor People. I’m not the proudest of this video… but 50,000 people learned something new from it, and I felt it was my duty as a then-Michigander to fulfill my duty in spreading anti-Nestle sentiment.
For those who don’t know, there is a longstanding feud between the people of Michigan (residents of the Great Lakes state who collectively own said Great Lakes) and Nestle, who has a long history of “stealing” our Great Lakes water to sell back to use in little plastic bottles at a ridiculous markup.
From 2020 until 2024 (update: I have recently started making videos again), I made additional YouTube videos on a different channel aptly named EvilCorporations.com along with a similarly named TikTok page.
Anybody who goes into the YouTube channel or TikTok page will be able to tell you that I’m not exactly the greatest video presenter. I have zero flow, flub words constantly, and my video editing skills are comparable to those of an 8 year old.
But what I lack in videomaking, I make up in in research. I’ve spent more than 5 years learning how to find documents of lessor known acts of corporate misconduct and translating entire pages of jargon into condensed plain-English paragraphs about what each individual corporation did wrong and what destructive impacts they had on society at large.
This wasn’t an easy thing to learn. As mentioned earlier, I’m not a lawyer; I graduated from business school. But after years of treating this as a full time job along tens of thousands of dollars spent in procuring the latest information on individual acts of corporate greed, I do wholly consider myself to be an independent researcher and citizen journalist.
Which brings us to this website; my newest medium for exposing corporate malfeasance.
I’d like to end with a stark quote from the famed economist Herbert Stein:
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Dr Stein espoused this in 1986, and he died in 1999. Long before corporatocracy dug its talons into the 21st century economy. I wonder what he’d say about the state of world if he were still here today?