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How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Bohne93@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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    • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How’d that work out? Guy made a plea deal, failed to start a revolution and is just a meme on the internet.

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      • Sarothazrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        dude is rightfully seen as a hero to millions of people and odds are is going to have mad respect in prison. dunno if I’d call that nothing.

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      • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Only because he got caught.

        Remember how they pissed their pants? If he had the training, perhaps some support and a better plan, he might have kept going.

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Be the richest person ever, buy them, and then shut them down.

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  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Become president, collapse the dollar and the economy, turn all allies against you, start wars with no benefit or obvious endgame, get the rest of the world to start a program of “Buy not-America”, wait a few years for new programs and businesses to start in foreign nations, have sanctions placed against you for being a bad neighbor, watch your local and international businesses collapse.

    🤞

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    • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      🙏🏽

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    • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nestle is swiss, this won’t do jack shit to them.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You don’t think an economic crisis where 30% of their shareholders and close to 50% of their income is sourced from won’t harm them significantly?

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  • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Start an all-out nuclear conflict that renders the earth uninhabitable.

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    • weps@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      create a virus that kills most people

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s the worst idea yet. As we’ve seen with covid, the streaming providers only get stronger under those circumstances.

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    • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gonna start a war! Start a nuclear war!

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  • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dude, can you also do Microsoft, Meta, Space X, Palantir and Clearview while you’re at it? Not particularly in that order.

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    • tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Microsoft seems to be doing well enough fucking themselves.

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      • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent

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  • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    • Nestlé: identify competitors and use their products. Eg Semper for baby food, or chocolate brands that support the cocoa farmers.
    • Amazon: buy directly from the stores instead of via amazon. Urge businesses to use e.g. hetzner instead of aws
    • Google: use other search engines, use YouTube with Adblock so they don’t earn revenue on your streaming (consider supporting creators via other platforms)
    • Apple: buy competitor products
    • Disney: don’t use Disney products
    • BlackRock: no clue lol
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    • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh BlackRock is easy - the answer is arson

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    • Bwaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And maybe ebay, too. About half the stuff I’ve bought recently from ebay has arrived in an Amazom box.

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      • white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This happened to me recently, and it pissed me off

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  • Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    All you have to do is show enough people their most-egregious aweful, or even evil, behavior, in ways that go viral, and make accountability bite them…

    You’ll be blacklisted by all their friends, though, as part of the price you pay for doing it…

    such is the consequence of being born into already-established designer/decorator feudalism…

    maintain appearances, or you’ll be hurt, right?

    🙏

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    • LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What do you mean by… “blacklisted by all their friends”…?

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      • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Remember the EU judge whose Visa and Mastercard accounts were frozen for investigating the US for something? That. Except you’re probably not a high ranking official.

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  • blackshirt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You just need to convince the richest man on the world to buy them, and let him drive them out of business.

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Better yet… An orange idiot who took a big chunk of America’s wealth all to himself!

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  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Become an expert assassin and kill the CEOs, major shareholders and executives, etc. into the stock collapses and the companies shut down.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We’re counting on you, OP.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The most you can do as an individual is not buy from those companies

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    • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Certainly one can do more than just that

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  • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Connect with other people and be no longer a single individual fighting this fight. Reveal to others why you think those are evil companies, encourage them to boycott them, build a community of likeminded people, use this to influence politics or become politically active yourself.

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  • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Arson

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  • pirate2377@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Terrorism

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Would be especially effective against Nestle. Advertise that you’re going to poison products from the company, do it successfully, then advertise you’ll do it again.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As an individual? Even if you blow up and kill everyone at their head office it probably won’t put them out of business.

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They can’t. It’s not a one person job and there is no getting around that.

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    • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah you’re going to need 11 men. And an ocean, for some reason.

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  • iatenine@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s a very specific weakness in the death star but you’ll need to master the force first

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    • J92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Did he use the force to get them to go down that hole? That bit always confused me. Why did they turn 90° and go straight down?

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      • ThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s never been clear to me either, but at the very least he used the force to time the trigger pull

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    really testing the communities title aye. anyway while they are at it tell me how one person can get rid of all the facist leaders on the planet.

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  • Cheese_man@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    One star reviews on Yelp.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Launch a competing business. IBM is still technically around but yeah.

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    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      IBM is digging its own grave with “AI-native mainframe”

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Helping Nazis catalogue prisoners in concentration camps didn't sink them.

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        those fedora users are going to be very upset

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    • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Acknowledging that IBM is still around undermines your point about “competition”. The whole point of end-game capitalism is to escape competition, not overcome it.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Are you kidding me? IBM back in the day was like Microsoft+Google+Apple+many other companies all rolled into one. They are a shadow of what they were.

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  • phonics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Use the Luigi method

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Become a billionaire and outcompete them, or become a some kind of supreme leader of USA and Switzerland and close them down.

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  • RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    LOL

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  • Azzu@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are a couple answers talking about becoming more rich/outcompeting them.

    If you become the richest person ever or outcompete them, you’d likely be worse than they are now, and then you’d be the one people would want to shut down.

    This isn’t really a question about those specific companies, but what they represent. If you’re taking the question seriously (joke answers are fine of course!), then the problem can’t be solved by becoming like them or “beating them at their own game”, because that’s literally what caused the problem in the first place.

    The problem can only be solved by living a non-greedy life, abandoning “career advancement” or similar, and instead doing “the right thing” at all times, even if it requires personal sacrifice. If you live your life that way, you’ll likely inspire others to do the same. In the end, the answer of course is “an individual can not shut these companies down”, but if everyone acted like I’m saying, then these companies would get shut down by no one working for them anymore.

    In the end, you have to answer the question “if everyone acted like me, would the problem still be there?”, and if the answer is no, then you’re successful. That everyone does actually act like you is not really important in the end.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you become the richest person ever or outcompete them, you’d likely be worse than they are now, and then you’d be the one people would want to shut down.

      I wrote one of those answer and yeah, no, I got that. I just thought this issue would be obvious, but my comment was probably too subtle.

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      • Azzu@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No worries, that’s why I added the part of “joke answers are fine of course :)”. It’s hard to tell over text.

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    • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      to be fair, shutting down yourself is pretty easy on the corporate espionage scale.

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  • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I recommend politics. Local politics can get their presence in your neighborhood to chill, set examples for other municipalities, and lead to broader office (if done well). Legal, community driven, and fairly direct. Does require talking to your neighbors, sometimes in public, which is a substantial downside.

    Failing politics, I think your next best bet is probably attempting to do some hacking/espionage work. LLMs make this more scalable than it used to be, and they seem pretty happy to hack big companies. Costs a lot of money, will enrich other tech bros with high probability, definitely illegal, and it’s pretty hard to do this hard enough to crush the business (tho if you can siphon enough money out???). But you won’t have to talk to a neighbor or speak in public, so that’s nice.

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  • fluffy_cloud@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Magic. Learn magic. Meditate and read some books on chaos magic. It ain’t all bullshit.

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    • LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I can’t tell if you’re joking or not…

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      • lung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Leading plan here if you ask me

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  • aim4harmony@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Switch off the eletricity.

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  • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Become a high ranking political leader in a country that has nukes and start ww3 to end all of the human race.

    There might be some collatoral damage involved but technicaly that might do it.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Massive damage to infrastructure. Repeat every bail out.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For starters, you could learn the difference between businesses you don’t like and those causing unavoidable and irreparable societal harm.

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    • LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Trick Question: There IS no difference! And saying otherwise is an admission of lying.

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      • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Of course there is. Three or four of those companies you can simply opt-out of, the other two are causing deep societal harm. The fact that you know which two I’m talking about proves my point.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you cant, unless you can somehow create a product(s) to compete with thiers to make them irrelevant.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    https://media.makeameme.org/created/first-rule-of-5a331b.jpg

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