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?

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They can literally afford to fix this issue.

Enough is enough.

Prayers for Sudan 🇸🇩 and to all those suffering across the world.

Trouble is, the only way we could swiftly communicate this community action on a global scale is via the internet, using our devices.

We should round them up from their mansions and stick em on a plane to go and sort it! Economy class.

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I'd boycott amazon though!

Do you really think throwing money at the problem will solve?

Do you think Bill Gates, or someone, can just make a call to Wal-Mart and say 'deliver ten truckloads of aid to starving kids in Sudan and charge it to my Amex account' and that'll be job done?

It's not the cost of food that's the problem, is it? It's civil war, mass displacement, disruption in the Red Sea, the government restricting humanitarian access, regimes rising and falling. It's not like Bezos can Amazon some food over there.

We should round them up from their mansions and stick em on a plane to go and sort it!

On a plane to where? To do what, exactly?

I think he could bloody try. I wanna see him try. 😡

I understand the sentiment but this is not really a money issue but more a power / political and corruption issue.

People have been throwing money at African nations for decades (see Bob Geldof and Lenny Hendry) and it’s not really solved anything.

Ok so when are you boycotting the internet? Since nearly everything runs on AWS?

Or was this your good deed of the day to post a virtue signalling post on the internet?

Then I'd delete your account if I were you, given that MN relies on Amazon Web Services.

yes, boycott Amazon and put thousands of british people out of a job...

So just Amazon then, but you are going to keep your smartphone

How sweet and naive. How simple!!
Money is and has been thrown at this cause right, left and centre by multi billionaires, donations, events (remember live aid anyone?). Corrupt governments will always put their Mercs before the people.

Me: trying to incite an angry mob to round up the billionaires

You lot: no. ^^

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.

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

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

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.

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

I'm not. How can I boycott something that is (or will at some point be deemed) a human right?! I'm not telling anyone to boycott water or food or heating or their cars

But, being serious, I would love an organised boycott of several products to make the point that the billionaires can sort this and are choosing not to.

Side note - I know youre trying to get rid of me, but me and my gifs are going nowhere!!

What are you using to post this?

Ok but what are using to post on mn?

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

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