All billionaires should be required to prove they’re not made of cake.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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I will send a strongly worded letter to the random website from which I copied and pasted this.
Thank you kind person. May ever road rise up to meet you, and every building you siege fall hastily
Individually? Nothing. Therefore: Organise, organise, organise
Computer, who is Luigi Mangione?
The solution is simple, but not easy: Stop using their products. A mass exodus of their users will quickly take away their power.
Stop using all Alphabet/Google products. Other search engines, email providers, streaming video, and even cell phone operating systems exist. Switch to them.
Stop using all Meta products. Other social networks and messaging applications exist. Switch to them.
Stop buying from Amazon and watching their streams. Other online stores and streaming media exists. Switch to them.
Keep going for every company who has a billionaire CEO, owner, or shareholder. Their fortunes will evaporate quickly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmsfr3
3 minute scene from planet earth series with seals chasing a great white shark away
People keep answering by trying to tell you to consume your way out of this.
There is only one way, organize, unionize and vote!
Do what you can. A little more each day if it gets easier. Understand we can't fight all the worlds evils alone, but we aren't alone so whatever your fight is helps all of us.
I push for opensource, self hosting, being self sufficient, unionizing (at work, and for tenets), forming coops (worker, community, housing, and even producer coops), do mutual aid, support charities through donations sure but also volunteering. I also try to buy less, if you need it you need it, but if you don't then why support corps like Walmart or Amazon for them to take those profits to undermine us.
Again it's not about perfection or even self actualization, it's just every time we can empower ourselves and others we can shift the power balance.
Instead of spending 200$ a month on subscriptions, spend 300$ on a used PC, take a weekend to learn how to selfhost/pirate and then pay 5$ for a trustworthy vpn like mullvad. If you're in the EU, send data deletion requests to every big company you've had an account with. Start buying things off local retailers, not Amazon. Buy computers/phones either second hand or from smaller/more trustworthy manufacturers...
And most importantly. NEVER. STOP. COMPLAINING. ABOUT. IT. The moment the complaints stop is the moment that bullshit is accepted...
Not sure if this is really accessible for everyone.
It's probably easy to underestimate how difficult setting up and managing services can be.
I set up a Jellyfin server on a 10 year old laptop that sits closed in the corner and I have access to play the content from my TV in the living room and bedroom, and any other device that I connect to my network and it was fairly simple. Finding content is likely the hinge that holds more people back. My lazy ass didn't want to have to go to the corner to acquire content so I set up rustdesk on my phone so I can remote to the laptop from my phone, turn the VPN on to hop to Madrid or so, and acquire what is wanted then remote to it later on to take it back off the VPN. (Allows me to do such when out and about, say someone mentions a movie or show when at work)
Was going to see if I could punch a hole with tailscale so I could leave the Jellyfin server local and just share the drive so I could write to it from "Spain" while read from it on the TV without having to switch the VPN on and off but haven't had a a few hours to spend on that yet. The shared drive is an old 5400rpm drive and it'll play movies at 1080p in 2 rooms without issue. (I don't bother with 4k, my eyes really aren't good enough to find the storage space use worth it)
I'm not really sure what you're getting at?
I've been self hosting for many years. Including mission critical data for my consultancy.
It's a great hobby and I'd encourage anyone who's interested to get involved.
That said, for people looking for a way to "fight against tech billionaires", migrating their google drive to a self hosted nextcloud instance from a cold start with no experience in self hosting is inadvisable.
It's not hard and there's plenty of people, like myself, that are willing to help you. Let's work together.
It may not be "hard", yet it's just not practically possible for most people.
It is practically possible. You just have to put in a small amount of effort. Anyone saying it's too hard has given up without trying.
It's not "too hard", it just completely unreasonable to expect people in general to self host as a way to "fight against tech billionaires".
I can assure you that most people would find the amount of effort required to learn, implement, and maintain self hosted services to be unpractical.
I work in IT. Trust me, it's well beyond a lot of people.
I work in tech and I promise it's not. I worked my way through support and engineering and then did development. I promise people aren't as bad at tech as they appear to you. The only thing stopping people is laziness.
I'm a software engineer and I had to quit self-hosting due to simply not having the time nor the ability to research and keep up with security, products that were going away, new ones, etc. I have a job, run a farm, and do housework and other work. It's just not in the cards for me.
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The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don't give them any if you can help it.
for example:
get off of facebook (easy). don't buy tesla or use starlink (easy). don't buy on amazon (difficult but doable). Don't upgrade your iphone, and don't buy new apple products (moderate). Don't use CHATGPT (easy).
Use Linux and open source software. Contribute to open source projects. Buy hardware second hand. Use non corporate social media. Buy local. Get your stuff fixed instead of throwing it away. Avoid data harvesting where possible.
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Call Luigi?
Assuming Luigi Mangione is responsible for the murder of that CEO strips him of his presumption of innocence. Maybe refer to the gunman from the video as "The Adjuster" like people did before Mangione was accused until the trial is complete.
But if he's not the shooter, what if the real Adjuster isn't as hot as Luigi?
(I'm just kidding though, I totally agree with you)
That’s a great insight! However, there’s only one true Luigi…
Luigi did his part. One luigi per ceo not one luigi for all the ceos
While I don't expect more of this person, going the Batman/Jesus route would be helpful.
Edit: Although, I prefer the V for Vendetta method where we all anonymously fight back and take back over.
Batman is a rich man.
Yes, but the people didn't know that. They blamed him for things he didn't do. He allowed that for the greater good.
Who are those two in the picture? Are we supposed to know them?
that's edited photo, original is just as derpy. it's altman and nadella
btw this is very much a "heartwarming - the worst people you know are fighting" sitution
An individual can do very little.
Which is why we organize, strike, and practice solidarity, together.
If you want to help, look for left movements in your area. Food Not Bombs for example.
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Pirate, AdBlock/Sponsorblock and use Free/Open Source alternatives.
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