Anyone disappointed should just boycott everything coming from the USA
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.
This is the lazy and ultimately wrong way. Sure, it doesn’t hurt, but its actual effect is not very powerful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. We’re all like this. Go ahead 😉
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?
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.
edit:
oof. 🤪 Even in the glorified 1950s neither part of this statement has been (generally) true.