You just need to convince the richest man on the world to buy them, and let him drive them out of business.
Better yet… An orange idiot who took a big chunk of America’s wealth all to himself!
Alone you can’t, but have you ever heard of unions and communism?
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.
How’d that work out? Guy made a plea deal, failed to start a revolution and is just a meme on the internet.
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.
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.
He was bound to get caught. Typically if it was the start of a movement, you would have seen organization and actual actions occurring, rather than nothing and health costs still skyrocketing. But hey, makes a good meme right?
Dude, can you also do Microsoft, Meta, Space X, Palantir and Clearview while you’re at it? Not particularly in that order.
Microsoft seems to be doing well enough fucking themselves.
Edit: I just looked at their stock. The world makes no sense.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent
Start an all-out nuclear conflict that renders the earth uninhabitable.
create a virus that kills most people
That’s the worst idea yet. As we’ve seen with covid, the streaming providers only get stronger under those circumstances.
COVID didn’t kill most people, not even most people who got it.
Right but I still don’t think it’d drive those specific companies out of business. They’re all damn good at profiting off of a worldwide catastrophe.
In the scenario of a virus that kills most people (i.e. more than 50% of the worldwide human population), I expect the entire world political and economic system to collapse, probably including most or all of these companies, though not only them.
Well then, agree to disagree?
The plague sounds interesting…
Let’s start a war! Start a nuclear war!
The most you can do as an individual is not buy from those companies
Certainly one can do more than just that
Become an expert assassin and kill the CEOs, major shareholders and executives, etc. into the stock collapses and the companies shut down.
We’re counting on you, OP. Be careful.
Connect with other people and no longer be 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.
- 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
Oh BlackRock is easy - the answer is arson
Man, I failed by buying an iPod in 2009… One and only time I ever bought an Apple thing. It’s my fault they’re still in business… Sorry everyone 😭😂
And maybe ebay, too. About half the stuff I’ve bought recently from ebay has arrived in an Amazom box.
This happened to me recently, and it pissed me off
They can’t. It’s not a one person job and there is no getting around that.
Yeah you’re going to need 11 men. And an ocean, for some reason.
Terrorism
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.
As an individual? Even if you blow up and kill everyone at their head office it probably won’t put them out of business.
One star reviews on Yelp.
There’s a very specific weakness in the death star but you’ll need to master the force first
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?
That’s never been clear to me either, but at the very least he used the force to time the trigger pull
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.
