Buy European

If you're curious, here's a breakdown of where the money is invested.

To be fair part of the reason we have so much money in the US is because we bought stocks before this massive bubble - when it bursts it's not like we will have lost the money. There's so much money the only way it becomes worthless is through a full global economic collapse, including infrastructure, real estate, everything.

I'm mostly just angry because so much money is pumped into things I hate, in my name, and it's not even up for election. The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has around 240 billion USD split between Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. As we're 5.6 million people, I effectively have $42 606 of oil profits invested in these five companies who are actively destroying the planet, and there's nothing I can do about it. And instead of using the soft power that comes with the investments they want to remove guidelines so that they can invest more actively in genocide technology or whatever.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft has bought a lot of smaller European countries by making offers they cannot refuse; offering services for an unreasonably low price, selling at a loss, and only pumping prices up after full dependency is achieved.

I suspect that's why Benelux and the Nordics are red on the map. They are highly digitalized and rich countries, so great potential customers, but still small enough that Microsoft can afford to operate at a loss for long enough to leave digital sovereignty in shatters.

Starbucks is doing the same thing to independent cafés all over Europe.

The higher-ups are not falling for the Microsoft logo, they are fooled by low prices, the potential for ~~firing the IT department~~ efficiency boosts, and the prioritization of short-term benefits over long-term strategy. To them it has seemed like an obvious choice every single time, which is how we came to find ourselves in such deep shit.

The sovereign wealth fund lost 1500 billion kroner of value since this summer. And that's before the stock market crashes.

All the money in the world is invested in the same scam, so we're not worse off than anyone else. The biggest difference is that we have a lot more money to lose. I'm just angry because we should have been better than that, but instead hired some finance bro with the IQ of a fencepost and no fucking idea what anything is worth to manage the fund. Now is the time for strengthening ethical guidelines, not weakening them. The social democrats won the election, but they're not challenging the leadership of the wealth fund because it's supposed to be "apolitical'.

If funding tech bros is apolitical then so is the guillotine.