Terrific! Congrats!
SebaDC
joined 5 months ago
Yes. We're all like this. Go ahead π
Do they? Most founders located in the USA are either heirs of Fortunes or foreigners.
They're especially good at:
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Financing: they have been printing money line there's no tomorrow and pumped their stock market
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Marketing: many of us here aren't native English speakers and yet, we communicate in English. This puts native speaker at an advantage
So no. They don't do so much better things. They are just reckless their own people for the sake of the economy.
And yes. Not buying from them, especially for things that are commodities (benzin, diesel) or bad for your health (soda, junk food) is actually hurting them.
To paraphrase Jeff Winger:
You may have read it, I may have thought it, but I didn't write it.
For one: ownership. Nobody can take away your DVDs legally.
Second: you can buy 2nd hand. Only the (local) reseller makes money.
Third: you can buy local content...
Fourth: no recurring sales for Netflix & co. And this is huge. Because they use their ARR to get financing, Netflix & co need you to pay monthly. Buying DVDs is much less predictable and does not give them the same financial power.
Fifth: you can lend them. Want to share a movie with friends? They didn't need their own subscription. You can just lend them the DVD. Again: less sales.
Finally: once you start going this, your discover your local ecosystem. Libraries, associations, forums etc. With doing like this for culture (Books, music, movies), tools, and even expertise.
Americans won't have money to pay for it products anyway. I'm not even sure 15% will be the problem.
Anyone disappointed should just boycott everything coming from the USA, from companies owned by the USA (PE, stock market, etc).
Start with easy stuff. Like benzin/diesel for your car. Don't go to esso or jet. Then, stop drinking Coca-Cola, Pepsi, etc. or going to the McDonald's. Boycott Tesla, Ford & Co.
Cancel your Netflix and Amazon prime, and buy CDs, DVDs and blue rays.
Stop buying iPhones. Move away from Microsoft and Google as much as possible. In your private life and your companies. Go open source.
Trade wars are a problem only for the seller if there are no buyers.
- βTISZA would admit Ukraine to the EU! Is that okay with you?β
Publishing that in Hungary is so ironic.
When did Germany supply weapons? Or is it companies based on Germany? There's a big difference.
Welcome to capitalism.
The way government treat others is a preview of how they will treat you, when you are "the other".
This is so ironic π€¦π»ββοΈ