- cross-posted to:
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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The EU needs to use some of those billions they’re throwing around to heavily incentivize digital startups. I want the possibility to fully detach from US companies before Trumps term ends.
They already fund a lot of open projects. I would rather they do more of that instead of shoving money down the throat of shitty for profit tech startups. Privacy laws are on track to suffer quite a bit in the next few years so we need more lock-in free infrastructure.
You posted your comment on a platform funded by the EU. Not feddit.org or lemm.ee, but lemmy itself (though as I gather sunaurus himself is getting funds for development, the EU isn’t funding instances, though, just the development).
How many “big tech” companies are just benefiting from network effects and don’t really offer something unique and useful?
Network effects could be spurred from institutional efforts, usually with some incentives.
Why “if”. I’ve started ditching us products and wouldn’t give a flying duck if we put tariffs or not.
And at least in here the selection on groceries and other commonly purchased goods doesn’t even have much options from the US. Sure, there’s things like Coca-Cola, but they’re produced domestically too, so it depends on how strictly you want to avoid anything related to USA.
Maybe the most common US originating household item around here is a Briggs & Stratton engine on a lawnmower. And of course CPU’s and GPU’s inside computers and gaming consoles. But there’s just not that many physical products around in the stores you even could buy.
Digital goods are obviously more common as there’s very few actually viable alternatives for Meta, Alphabet, streaming services and so on for your Joe Average.
I would not take seriously someone who claims they avoid American products, and still buys Coca-Cola.
For digital products, it really depends on your usage.
I’m talking about the average consumer, who in average doesn’t really care about things like this around here. It’s quite common to favor domestic products over imports, specially at the grocery store, but even if you tried it would be pretty difficult to fill in your cart with just US products around here as there’s just not too many products available.
Cars around here tend to be either Japanese, Korean or European. Tools are mostly from China (or somewhere in east) or European (you still can see DeWalt tools here and there, I have few too but they’ve been around for years). With all kinds of appliances it’s the same picture.
What I’m trying to say that even if you don’t give a damn about US, your Joe Average still have very few US originating things around their houses. Farmers used to have quite a lot of John Deere around but that has changed too over the last few years and while you obviously still see the green ones around they’re lot less common. Should all US originated products vanish from the stores overnight very few people would even notice.
That’s because they don’t understand how goods work in IT. People lose their shit when Netflix increases prices $5
