This document lists and explains the top 6 lies that big corporations tell. These include claiming that employees are their most valuable asset when in reality layoffs are common, promising survey responses will be confidential when they are not legally bound to confidentiality, asserting they are a meritocracy when connections play a large role in success, saying they are environmentally friendly despite damaging supply chains, stating they are not racist or sexist despite lack of diversity in leadership, and defining core values as making money above all else. The document argues corporations tell these lies to generate employee loyalty, avoid responsibility, and uphold socially acceptable appearances while prioritizing profits over other concerns.

2. LIE #6: “Employees are Our Most Valuable
Asset”
Why It’s a Lie: If this were true, then layoffs would be the LAST
resort during hard times.
Why Big Corporations Tell It: This is part of the general
disinformation campaign that corporations foist on employees in
the hopes of generating a sense of loyalty.

3. LIE #5: “Your Responses Will Be Completely
Confidential”
Why It’s a Lie: Corporations
are not legally bound to respect
statements of confidentiality,
mostly because they’ve
managed, for the past thirty
years, to scuttle any and all
laws or regulations.
Why Corporations Tell It: This
lie typically comes up when a
company is performing some
form of employee survey.

4. LIE #4: “We Are a Meritocracy”
Why It’s a Lie: Employees enter a company through pre-existing
connections with colleagues or family members.
Why Corporations Tell It: even though most executives “won”
their position as much through connections and politics as
through actual talent, they want to believe that they were
promoted due to their vast intelligence and ability.

5. LIE #3: “We Are Environmentally Friendly”
Why It’s a Lie: Big companies have supply
chains that reach deep into countries like
China which do not enforce environmental
laws.
Why Corporations Tell It: by telling this lie,
and generating the fake paperwork to back it up,
companies can
1) pretend that the horrors aren’t really happening
2) possess plausible deniability if the horror stories
finally become public knowledge.

6. LIE #2: “We Are Neither Racist Nor Sexist”
Why It’s a Lie: Just take a look at your top management and
your board of directors.
Why Corporations Tell It: Because it’s no longer socially
acceptable to be racist or sexist, corporations feel the need to
insist that they’re not, even though they’re self-selecting for
leaders who “just happen to be” middle-aged white males.

7. LIE #1: “Our Core Values Are…”
Why It’s a Lie: All corporations have exactly one core
value: Make Money.
Why Corporations Tell It: The “core
values” statement is a prime example
of what’s known as the “law of inverse
relevancy.”
That law, roughly stated, is: “The less you
plan on doing about something, more you
must talk about it.”

8. But it’s silly to believe that they’re not going to do
anything and everything to increase revenue and profit,
even if it creates all sorts of problems for the rest of the
world.