- cross-posted to:
- europa@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- europa@lemmy.world
I hope they do make the details public, but it does look like EU bent the knee with this one.
I hope they do make the details public, but it does look like EU bent the knee with this one.
This is the lazy and ultimately wrong way. Sure, it doesn’t hurt, but its actual effect is not very powerful.
The better way to get back at USA is to start doing things better than they do. Stop fucking around and do stuff. We might be there in some limited areas, but in general the US rules over the world economically because they’re good at making things.
If consumer boycotts wouldn’t be powerful, why did the US pass anti-boycott bills? Why is there so much lobbying against consumer boycotts?
Also the US isn’t good at making things. If they were, they would have a positive trade balance with most countries. Instead they have a negative balance and a lot of their exports are crude resources and other low-level refined products from them.
Yeah, perhaps I’m being a bit myopic here because I’m in IT. And it seems to me that in my field almost everything is either made in USA or significantly funded by them.
I disagree with your statement about quality. For instance, I’d much rather have a German car than an American one. America doesn’t really make things any more anyway, most of it has been outsourced to China or other countries. The manufacturing expertise has mostly left the US. See for instance some of the most recent videos done by Smarter Every Day on YouTube where he talks about how hard it is to make a purely American made product.
What they have in the US is money so they can buy stocks and other things like that, so they make money off of things that others make.
They also make a ton of money off of everybody using the dollar as the global trade currency. That means that they can print a lot more money in the US without it causing as much inflation as it would otherwise, and the money they print are released into the US economy. They basically get to tax the holdings of companies all over the world that way.
You’re not wrong but you’re wrong when you say “ultimately wrong”.
More than one thing can help here.
And your counter-proposal to “stop fucking around and do stuff” is not so hot.
Better advice: contact your MP’s right now because this hasn’t been ratified yet.
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oof. 🤪 Even in the glorified 1950s neither part of this statement has been (generally) true.
Do they? Most founders located in the USA are either heirs of Fortunes or foreigners.
They’re especially good at:
Financing: they have been printing money line there’s no tomorrow and pumped their stock market
Marketing: many of us here aren’t native English speakers and yet, we communicate in English. This puts native speaker at an advantage
So no. They don’t do so much better things. They are just reckless their own people for the sake of the economy.
And yes. Not buying from them, especially for things that are commodities (benzin, diesel) or bad for your health (soda, junk food) is actually hurting them.
Would be interesting to know if your attitude is a typical attitude in Europe. I would sell all my european funds and buy american ones to replace them if it is.
Typical European here: yes, we are.
So just to clarify: Do you think that boycotting USA is more important than being better than USA?
Define better.
In this context: Doing better stuff better than they do.
Not only you use the word you need to define on the definition, but you use it twice.
We do better stuff better than US. They do some stuff better than us. Some third parties do better than either.
What’s your point?
Yes. We’re all like this. Go ahead 😉