Buy European
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The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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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.
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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Basically avoid anything megacorp related (which takes a lil bit of research, but not that much - especially for products you buy repeatedly).
(Or ultra rich families related, even in non-ownership ways.)
It's because the system (capitalism) only has one metric (financial profit) & by definition any company with enough money "should" (by definition or obligation to shareholders) influence local, country, and EU politics as much as possible. Companies that don't will lag behind or get squeezed out of the markets (b2c, b2b, labour market, supply chains, etc).
And all of it is basically always bad for the consumer & other citizens in the ~~long~~ medium run.
We need regulated markets & less imperialism.
(It's also why EU directives include so many agencies, specialists, public hearings, and separately input from the companies that get affected. It takes time, but it's transparent & at least semi-successfully eliminate the politics from directly affecting legal frameworks at it's core goals. Also directives are subject to scheduled reviews which is when market participants, ie companies, voice their grievances/costs, suggestions for simplifications, or even improvements. Not via lobbyists directly to politicians. Not that there isn't any of that.)
Totally agree, but I wanted to ask about the really worst. In Germany most companies don't support the Afd yet. Many support the CDU, I don't know if that is much better, because I think they will help them to power. But I think its important to know about the worst and send a signal. I really don't want to support Nazis. I saw Red Bull being mentioned as a good EU alternative for US products. I didn't know about the other companies in the comments, I bought Abus before and am not going to do that again. I've heard people say that driving a Tesla isn't that bad, because all car manufacturers are bad. I wasn't happy with that answer.
Oh, I totally agree with you & support this post's endeavour, actually I felt bad about my (very indirect) contribution.
It's just that rich owners or very profitable firms (especially in a field where other competitors don't achieve the same financial results) usually have a lot of immoral (but legal) practices. All of them count, eg pushing on local municipalities to lower their fees/taxes in exchange for company's "investment in their own company" (??) or threatening to go next door, exploiting the labour force, forcing suppliers into vertical integrations, etc. That just fucks everybody & it's just an additional wealth transfer bcs of a position of power or even corruption (no intrinsic value added).
But again, I absolutely agree, identifying & cutting out nazi-aficionado megacorps is (atm) more important than cutting out imperialist-unregulated-market-enthusiast megacorps (which are the reason we have a nazi problem tho!).
But identifying such companies is a bit hard bcs they do have strong PR departments (or consultants) that monitor & prohibit such affiliations (bcs of tangible direct threat to revenue). Eg you can envision that not too long ago a nazi-salute in USA would be the immediate downfall of a company. Now it isn't. Europe isn't at that bar yet so finding out who (& how) supports political pastries hellbent on doing autocratic harm for it's own power is hard.
That's why I decided to post my two cents about (additionally!) identifying evil megacorps by their profit margins or owners.