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[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I'll continue to sell them services necessitated by stupid American laws and systems that won't in any way grow their diplomatic power, but even at my pretty damn high hourly rates, I could work a million hours a year and not make a dent.

Best we can collectively do, though, is see where we're investing our money. My retirement fund was a composite of index funds, predominantly American, all American-run. I switched over to a different fund that has more European and international indexes, with many run by European owned companies. System here is such that retirement funds must be diversified, which is why they contain multiple index ETFs, some of them overlapping.