Western Europe should flood etsy with kickass stuff at really great prices to share and be cool to each other but then marks all sales as EU only. Use the US globalization as a way to squarely taunt the US digital bourgeoisie.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be more than a symbolic middlefinger, because intra-EU sales are very difficult for private citizens due to how expensive it is to ship from one EU country to another. This is based on shipping prices as displayed on Ebay if you want to have something from e.g. Italy or Austria shipped to Germany a couple of years ago, but I doubt it got any better.
It absolutely isn’t expensive.
Send last year a big 30kg package from Austria to Germany (because I was moving but didn’t want to drive all the shit), was charged something between 20-30€, and I believe that’s the same price in all of the EU
That’s still called “shipping”. Though I bet it’s actually cheaper to send it from Italy to Hamburg via container ship and then load it onto a truck than to drive a truck from Italy to Germany.
They do, but the farmers have to participate in an USDA program to prove that they haven’t used weird hormones and other “optimizations” in their livestock
Western Europe should flood etsy with kickass stuff at really great prices to share and be cool to each other but then marks all sales as EU only. Use the US globalization as a way to squarely taunt the US digital bourgeoisie.
sorry! no, thank you! come again!
I like your idea, but the bourgeoisie aren’t shopping on Etsy. Etsy shoppers are regular folk with very little political power (on their own).
What your idea might do is piss off the Etsy shoppers who voted for him, and to that I say: every little bit helps.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be more than a symbolic middlefinger, because intra-EU sales are very difficult for private citizens due to how expensive it is to ship from one EU country to another. This is based on shipping prices as displayed on Ebay if you want to have something from e.g. Italy or Austria shipped to Germany a couple of years ago, but I doubt it got any better.
It absolutely isn’t expensive. Send last year a big 30kg package from Austria to Germany (because I was moving but didn’t want to drive all the shit), was charged something between 20-30€, and I believe that’s the same price in all of the EU
20-30€ is more than the price of a lot of articles you’d want to buy …
20-30kg is also a lot heavier
all middle fingers are symbolic
Can’t they go by rail and/or truck like they do in North America?
That’s still called “shipping”. Though I bet it’s actually cheaper to send it from Italy to Hamburg via container ship and then load it onto a truck than to drive a truck from Italy to Germany.
Well there you go. 😁🙂
That kind of dunking id less globalization and more globe trotters.
(Do they still have those?)
Pig trotters? Yeah, last I checked Walmart still sells them in glass jars for your viewing pleasure
EU tariffs should be made highest for corporate sponsors of Trump to punish these assholes
Does Europe allow imports of organic American food (including free range)? Particularly from blue states?
They do, but the farmers have to participate in an USDA program to prove that they haven’t used weird hormones and other “optimizations” in their livestock
https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/imports-exports/nhtc