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> ... Their aim was to reinvigorate enthusiasm for their cultural and linguistic roots and keep money within the French-Basque region by supporting local busine
by apo 7y ago
> ... Their aim was to reinvigorate enthusiasm for their cultural and linguistic roots and keep money within the French-Basque region by supporting local businesses. ...
Adding friction to financial transactions for the sake of cultural reinvigoration seems like a desperate move. Anyone passionate enough about the cause will want to spend locally anyway, so it's not clear that this experiment is the best way to achieve the goal.
- devoply 7y agoIn fact it's extremely effective. Just look at what the French have been able to do in Quebec with all their various laws. This appeal to liberty and choice never actually works, it's just a rhetorical technique to quell dissent. People can't buy themselves out of bad corporate behavior. People can't choose their preferred language. People are lazy and do what is convenient. If you make anything less convenient they will prefer the convenient. For instance take K-cups, marginal benefit and marginal convenience... massive adoption.
- tokai 7y agoConsidering the historical political violence associated with Basque nationalism, it seems far from a desperate move to me.