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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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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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What do you mean by... "blacklisted by all their friends"...?
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.
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!
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.
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- NestlΓ©: 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
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 ππ
Oh BlackRock is easy - the answer is arson
And maybe ebay, too. About half the stuff I've bought recently from ebay has arrived in an Amazom box.
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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
Arson
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.
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.
The most you can do as an individual is not buy from those companies
Certainly one can do more than just that
Alone you can't, but have you ever heard of unions and communism?
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.
They canβt. Itβs not a one person job and there is no getting around that.
Yeah youβre going to need 11 men. And an ocean, for some reason.
Terrorism
Would be especially effective against Nestle. Advertise that youβre going to poison products from the company, do it successfully, then advertise youβll do it again.
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There's a very specific weakness in the death star but you'll need to master the force first
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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.
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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.
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.
Become a billionaire and outcompete them, or become a some kind of supreme leader of USA and Switzerland and close them down.
LOL
Use the Luigi method
Switch off the eletricity.
Magic. Learn magic. Meditate and maybe read some books on it. It ain't all bullshit.
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