To think that we should all boycott the businesses of billionaires until they sort the situation of kids starving to death due to famine and war?

It's naive to think billionaires can sort out the issues in Sudan. I'm Nigerian by heritage and similar to Sudan the issues are so complicated and interwinned with tribalism, religious decisions, historical issues etc that it's not just a situation where xx billionaires can sort it out and frankly its not their job to.

A country like Nigeria has everything it needs to be a wealthy country but is held back by tribalism, infighting, corruption, weak leaders etc and your solution just means the country will continue to be dependent on wealthier countries and have to play to their whims. There have been billions spent on aid and yet many if these countries are still dependent because it doesn't solve the issue at all.

Similar to Sudan there are many situations where eg foreign based Nigerian want to contribute and help but are blocked due to the corrupt inefficient system.

And the other issue is you expect the billionaires to help but also mind their business, unfortunately the world doesn't work that way and if you're dependent on a country or person the question is what is in it for them. Be it the US, China, UK, France etc every country provides "help" eg in Africa based on their interests an how it aligns with influence not just because they are generous.

The solution needs to come from Sudan with support from other countries not owned and led by other countries or billionaires.

Would it not make more sense to go round the mansions of corrupt dictators and politics rulers directly causing war and famine, round them up, put them on a plane and keep repeating until we had stable democracies?

I get that’s equally as unworkable but really they are more at the root of the problem.

Nail on the head. All this aid has probably done more harm than good in places where the corrupt leaders have siphoned it off to pay for arms to finance their warmongering, or buy their fancy cars, yachts, holiday homes in "nice" places etc. Corruption is rife in most of these "developing" countries and even moreso in those that seem to be constantly at war.

Just like something can be done to eradicate poverty in the UK, by as taxing big companies, restricting BTL and stopping the sale of council land.

Have you considered applying for the Chancellor’s job?

It’s not this simple, I’m a humanitarian professional - granted not in Sudan but in Yemen until very recently which has over 80% malnutrition rate of the entire population so I suppose a similar issue in terms of food.

There’s access issues for anywhere that’s in active conflict, even when there’s relative stability there’s usually localised access problems (for example rebel controlled areas if you don’t have a stable government) - I remember during 2023 we had shiploads of medical supplies for North Yemen just hanging out in ports in Dubai and Nairobi because the ports in Yemen were bombed and we couldn’t physically dock to unload and move supplies.

Then there’s long term stability and resilience to shocks that needs to be built up, in Yemen for example there’s huge flooding every year as the infrastructure is bad - which in turn ruins farm land that was perhaps invested in the season before, there’s livelihoods issues and areas need support to help the local economy so the population can build up purchasing power to buy food and items in the market - economy challenges, with the Red Sea crisis and MENA overall instability fuel prices have doubled in some places - so a family who were maybe doing ok and could provide for their needs in 2024 now can’t because inflation has pushed up the price of food while salaries haven’t increased - just to name a few issues

Just because someone mentioned Bill Gates above as an example, Bill and Melinda run the Gates foundation which in 2025 had a “turnover” of over 8 billion USD for programming and have released an extra 200 billion over the next few years. So some people are investing in trying to support

the billionaires can sort this and are choosing not to.

How? How do you think the billionaires can sort this? I mean, if you think they can do it, you must have some idea how?

And which businesses should we be boycotting? Have you got a list of Indian, Chinese, all the other nations, billionaires and their businesses, so we know to boycott them?

OP, who do you think owns the big supermarket chains, the big food manufacturers, large scale industry, car manufacturers, Google, Amazon, Sky, Spotify, Netflix, etc? It's not just Bezos etc., it's all the hedge funds etc that are owned/managed by billionaires.

If you really want to boycott the billionaires, turn off and throw away your laptop/smartphone, never set foot in a big supermarket again, buy all your food from local farmshops, buy clothes and household items from local/independent shops, sell/scrap your car, etc.

No, didn't think you meant that.

If you just "cherry pick" things that actually don't matter to you, such as an Amazon Prime account, you're just virtue signalling and it will have no impact whatsoever.

Exactly this. It's so pseudo-intellectual to spout off against "billionaires" as a way of trying to appear smart. Anyone who has a bit of intelligence knows that developmental issues like wars, famine, corruption etc can never be solved by money alone. Some regions of the world have always been plagued by violence and giving them aid has never significantly changed anything. How can money help when a country has miserable rates of human rights, zero gender equality and democracy?

Even if you provide funding to build new schools for girls, those in charge of the projects are all local males and most of the money will disappear under corrupt circumstances. Local politicians are ones who need to make lasting change and if they show no interest, why should a random Jeff Bezos who has fuck all to do with Sudan be forced (by the leftist police?) to give up his money for something else.

Just imagine you have a neighbour down the road whose on benefits, has 5 kids with 3 men, alcoholic and always complains about being broke. The someone comes and forces you to send her £100 a month. Simply because you earn more than her. You don't know her personally, you don't approve of her life choices, but you are now forced to give up your money because some random entity decided it's "fair" because her life makes them feel sad. Why the hell would anyone agree to that?

Money won’t fix a corrupt country. Money won’t fix dictators wanting wars because they want more land. Money won’t fix terrorists.

How long have those if you give just £3 this African village can have water adverts been going. Since before I was born.

I can't give up Amazon anyway, Clarksons Farm new series is on tomorrow

So what SHOULD we boycott?? Give me an example?

The thread title says all the businesses of billionaires but really you just mean Amazon, at least get the thread title right

Ok but what are using to post on mn?

What are you using to post this?

People always boycott things that are quite easy not to use like Amazon but don't want to give up their phone or the internet

It's not virtue signalling to be bloody pissed off at the news!

It's primary school level of thinking to just say 'make the billionaires sort it out'. Maybe come up with an actual plan that no-one has thought of before.

You didn’t tell us? When are you boycotting the internet? Since you are advocating for boycotting billionaires businesses.

Not sure if OP has really thought this through. Virtue signalling has its pitfalls.

All businesses belong to billionaires. HTH

You're presumably reading this from the screen of some sort of device. Throw that in the bin then.