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?
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.
One star reviews on Yelp.
How’d that work out? Guy made a plea deal, failed to start a revolution and is just a meme on the internet.
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.
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.
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.
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 answers and yeah, no, I got that. I just thought this issue would be obvious, which makes it funny, but my delivery might have been too subtle.
No worries, that’s why I added the part of “joke answers are fine of course :)”. It’s hard to tell over text. And like all satire, it’s satire because some do actually think that way. I didn’t want to take anything away from you or criticize you specifically, I think it’s just important for such a thread to have a few serious answers :)
Start an all-out nuclear conflict that renders the earth uninhabitable.
create a virus that kills most people
The plague sounds interesting…
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.
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.
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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Nestle is swiss, this won’t do jack shit to them.
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?
Become a leader of a country with access to a large nuclear arsenal
Launch a competing business. IBM is still technically around but yeah.
IBM is digging its own grave with “AI-native mainframe”
Helping Nazis catalogue prisoners in concentration camps didn’t sink them.
At least it was profitable
those fedora users are going to be very upset
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.
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.
Become a billionaire and outcompete them, or become a some kind of supreme leader of USA and Switzerland and close them down.
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
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I can’t tell if you’re joking or not…
Leading plan here if you ask me
Be the richest person ever, buy them, and then shut them down.
And then hundreds of thousands of people are out of work at no fault of their own.
All these companies can go fuck themselves but I think of the individuals who are employed by them so they can survive.
Those jobs won’t actually go away.
There’s still demand for the products they’re producing and such like.
It just won’t be Nestle or whoever signing the checks.
Why would there be a demand for stolen water and a campaign against water being a basic human right?
Do you think Nestle just makes it and people are like “oh. alright guess I’ll just buy this?” ?
they produce the stuff they do because there’s demand for those products. If nestle stopped bottling water and selling it at inflated prices while being shitheels… someone else will step in to meet the demand that exists.
they may also be shit heels. they may not. but those jobs will largely still exist… and probably still suck.
Not at that scale.
I mean, if these companies are gonna exploit literally everyone without even bothering to pay their workers a living wage, then nothing of value will be lost.
Yeh except 100,000s of people will all be at the unemployment centre all looking for the same jobs that don’t exist and have even less money. Look at the bigger picture than just your own bias.
I’m not FOR these companies but there would be a massive negative flow on effect for so many people if someone came along and shut them all down in an instant.
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