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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

17 September 2016

9:00 AM

17 September 2016

9:00 AM

Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Agri, Big Pharma… every industry these days seems to have its bogeyman collective, the theory being that you don’t get big by being nice to people, and that beyond a certain size profit and principles are incompatible. Some sectors hold out longer than others. For a while it looked as if Amazon and Facebook and Google really wanted to improve our busy, stressful lives.

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