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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by diob on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:13PM (#42924016)
I'm honestly terrified that they'll turn my savings to some sort of nothing by fucking over our currency.

I don't know how anyone isn't.

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by akkad33 on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:33PM (#42924254)
That sounds improbable. If US currency falls every western economy falls with it
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by diob on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:07PM (#42925275)
Improbable is probably how a lot of citizens of countries have felt in the past before their savings lost their worth. I'd rather us not be risking it at all.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by akkad33 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:10AM (#42962468)
So what is the action plan?
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ugexe on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:07PM (#42924658)
How does that make it improbable?
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by PaulRobinson on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:29PM (#42924890)
Not true. EUR and GBP will thrive.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by akkad33 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:10AM (#42962465)
How? When 2008 crisis happened the whole of west went down with the US
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by PaulRobinson on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:35PM (#42964593)
That was when the US was tightly aligned politically, economically, strategically at every level from national security to economic liberalism, with the rest of the West.

For years it was a given that the UK and Europe needed to buddy up to the US. That's not the sentiment any more, because the next four years feel like that's the wrong direction, and Ukraine is about to fall and that's the priority.