Tech sites sidestepping USD for Euro

[imported_cinder]

I have noticed in recent articles on the toms sites and many others, that currency used to price items is no longer given in USD but instead in Euro. I'm not saying they never mention the USD but it does seem like they are pricing items in Euros a lot more than in USD.

Now I am no expert but it seems like many people are talking about the value of the Dollar declining very much and I have heard via the media (I know its not the best source so no flames please) that the Euro might possibly become the world's currency within the next decade.

If that last statement is true, is it bad for the U.S. economy and for me as an American citizen?

 

[Ika]

Americans would never accept it.

 

[imported_cinder]

Well if our dollar is worth peanuts we have to move on or suffer.

 

[NanoStuff]

One step forward towards a global currency. Whatever way we can make life easier in these hectic times.

 

[imported_cinder]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
One step forward towards a global currency. Whatever way we can make life easier in these hectic times.

What does that even mean?!

 

[RichardE]

As the Euro becomes the defacto world money, and its people become the new "target" audience, you will see this much more.


ww.xe.com

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: cinder

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
One step forward towards a global currency. Whatever way we can make life easier in these hectic times.

What does that even mean?!

I'm not sure, my forum bot told me it would be a good thing to say. Lousy thing.

I think it means a global currency would be a good thing.

 

[Eeezee]

Yes, it is bad for you as an American that foreign currencies are more desirable. It's a symptom of a poor economy, not the cause.

 

[jpeyton]

Makes perfect business sense.

 

[Braznor]

Sometimes a cheaper dollar could potentially boost your exports, as American goods become cheaper for the world markets over other countries.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: Braznor
Sometimes a cheaper dollar could potentially boost your exports, as American goods become cheaper for the world markets over other countries.

What exactly does the US make though?

 

[nCred]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: Braznor
Sometimes a cheaper dollar could potentially boost your exports, as American goods become cheaper for the world markets over other countries.

What exactly does the US make though?

https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...-factbook/geos/us.html

Exports - commodities:
agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003)

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: Aflac
Americans would never accept it.

Yup, just like they dont drop the stupid imperial system for the metric one, despite the rest of the world using it

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: Aflac
Americans would never accept it.

Yup, just like they dont drop the stupid imperial system for the metric one, despite the rest of the world using it

Try and convert millions of americans from measuring things in feet to meters

Thing I don't like about it is the meter is rather large for many things but centimeter is too small. No middle ground like the foot. Yeah there is the decimeter but no one ever uses that.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: Aflac
Americans would never accept it.

Yup, just like they dont drop the stupid imperial system for the metric one, despite the rest of the world using it

Try and convert millions of americans from measuring things in feet to meters

Thing I don't like about it is the meter is rather large for many things but centimeter is too small. No middle ground like the foot. Yeah there is the decimeter but no one ever uses that.

.....you know if you want a measurement you don't have to come up with a name for it, a distance between 1 centimeter and 1 meter could be called '50 centimeters' WHAT? THATS INSANE I KNOW!

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: Aflac
Americans would never accept it.

Yup, just like they dont drop the stupid imperial system for the metric one, despite the rest of the world using it

Try and convert millions of americans from measuring things in feet to meters

Thing I don't like about it is the meter is rather large for many things but centimeter is too small. No middle ground like the foot. Yeah there is the decimeter but no one ever uses that.

I see your point, but everyone here is used to measuring things in cm up to a full meter so thats not a problem... Its common to see 30-40 cm etc, and its much better for people height... I hate the 5' 10" thing or whatever, what the hell? Just say 1.75 m

Not to mention weight... Kg >>

Its just more practical overall, but you cant help stubborn people

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Its just more practical overall, but you cant help stubborn people

It's not just stubborn people - there'd be a significant cost to switch as well. There's a lot of machine shops out there that only work in inches - they'd have to buy all new tooling so they could work in the new system.

 

[imported_cinder]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Thing I don't like about it is the meter is rather large for many things but centimeter is too small. No middle ground like the foot. Yeah there is the decimeter but no one ever uses that.

Um maybe the decimeter. It equals 10 centimeters. It's almost like feet, but easier to calculate seeing as its a power of 10 and not 12.

 

[LegendKiller]

Probably european sites like toms where it makes sense to denominate in euros. Any other sites?

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
One step forward towards a global currency. Whatever way we can make life easier in these hectic times.

a global currency is a horrible idea.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Probably european sites like toms where it makes sense to denominate in euros. Any other sites?

Quit bringing common sense to a thread devoted to yet more overwrought whining about the mild economic downturn the US is currently experiencing. Just remember for a lot of these folks the Ford-Carter days of stagflation, 18% mortgages, and 10% unemployment are just notes in history books that happened before they were born.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: Aflac
Americans would never accept it.

Yup, just like they dont drop the stupid imperial system for the metric one, despite the rest of the world using it

Oh man, I listened to a classmate yesterday talk about the American system, and we won't switch to metric because it's America, and we use the American measurement system here. It was like listening to Stephen Colbert, except that this guy was being serious about it. He says that the American (he kept calling it this, too) system is so much easier than metric, but he couldn't tell me off the top of his head how many yards are in a mile.
"But the rest of the world uses metric."
"So what, we're in America."

Logic and reason can't fight that kind of thinking.
He's the same one who did speeches in an Effective Speech class on how American-made products are always high quality because of our high standards. (Enforced by the government of course, not by our loving pride.) Never mind all of the food recalls due to E Coli contamination in good old American-made products.

So it isn't just stubbornness. It's a misguided sense of feverish nationalism.


16 oz in a pound
2000 pounds in a ton
32 fl oz in a quart
8 oz in a cup
12 inches in a foot

It's like combining cryptography with measurements.

 

[Safeway]

We need a new world currency, the Worldo.

 

[Synomenon]

Isn't there something in the Bible that says that when there's only one currency left / used, then the end is near? :Q

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: Aflac
Americans would never accept it.

Yup, just like they dont drop the stupid imperial system for the metric one, despite the rest of the world using it

Oh man, I listened to a classmate yesterday talk about the American system, and we won't switch to metric because it's America, and we use the American measurement system here. It was like listening to Stephen Colbert, except that this guy was being serious about it. He says that the American (he kept calling it this, too) system is so much easier than metric, but he couldn't tell me off the top of his head how many yards are in a mile.
"But the rest of the world uses metric."
"So what, we're in America."

Logic and reason can't fight that kind of thinking.
He's the same one who did speeches in an Effective Speech class on how American-made products are always high quality because of our high standards. (Enforced by the government of course, not by our loving pride.) Never mind all of the food recalls due to E Coli contamination in good old American-made products.

So it isn't just stubbornness. It's a misguided sense of feverish nationalism.


16 oz in a pound
2000 pounds in a ton
32 fl oz in a quart
8 oz in a cup
12 inches in a foot

It's like combining cryptography with measurements.

Sorry but I don't buy that. I suspect it is more the fact that most people in the US have used the English system since they were old enough to start using measurements and therefore they are much more familiar and comfortable with that system. As long as they don't perceive any overriding need to convert to metric it won't happen. The jingoistic/nationalistic statements thrown out by some people are just a shortcut and sometimes tongue in cheek way of saying they can't be bothered to learn a whole new system when they have what seems to be a workable system already in place. The average person doesn't cling to the English system for nationalistic reasons, they cling to it because it requires no thought on their part when someone tells them something is a couple of feet over there or a package weighs a couple of pounds.