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Giant corporations are abusers who say they love you

Two decades ago, Joel Bakan called big business psychopathic. He's back with a new project tracing how the psychopaths learned fraudulent kindness

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Anand Giridharadas
Sep 22, 2020
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Welcome back to The.Ink — or welcome!

Today, a twofer excerpt — of a book and a movie investigating how big business learned to abuse you by declaring its love.

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