• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    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.)

    • vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      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.