Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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This isn't for moral reasons, anyone can see the US economy and dollar will be worthless by 2028.
I started doing this for purely moral reasons roughly a year ago, knowing that it was most likely not the best economical decision for my investments. But now I'm starting to believe that you could be right.
A year ago I moved my pension from a combination index fund consisting of mostly US company ran index funds to a different combination index fund that consists of mostly European ran index funds (and had a slightly less American stocks in it). Complex pension system, most index pension funds ran by our banks here consist of 5-6 different index ETFs. It's a special category of fund that you invest into automatically each month from your taxes, and the government also contributes too. This is deducted from your taxable income and you pay reduced income tax on it when you retire (or maybe it was no income tax, I forgot)
Now I moved out of the bank-composed index fund altogether and in the month of May (you can only move funds 3 times a year on predefined dates and have to plan it well in advance), the existing monies will be reinvested in a selection of ETFs I selected to specifically have no US stocks. As for fund managers, I have a tiny bit in one iShares fund and one WisdomTree one because they were a bit unique (the WisdomTree one is Europe defense industry), but the rest is all Amundi, which is French. Any new deposits are already going into my selected ETFs.
If Trump truly fucks up the US economy and the US dollar, my retirement fund should be fairly safe after this move is complete. Unless Europe and Asia also crash and burn. But I have a few decades left to build more value anyway, I'm 30 and won't be able to retire until at least 65 (the retirement age was set to rise gradually so the later you were born, the older you'll have to be to retire, yaaaay)
As a corollary, all these new deals working away from the US are waters lifting all boats, while the isolationist US sinks. Trump may be the best thing to happen to the world economy in a hundred years, at the expense of the US economy.
You're absolutely adorable if you think the US dollar is going to be worthless and 2 years.
Trump is going to replace Jerome Powell with some asshole who will cut interest rates and vastly increase money printing. And, most countries are moving away from using the US dollar in trade, down by 10% just in 2025.
They're dumping the USD on purpose. But they're going to get more than they bargained for.