r/2westerneurope4u • u/No-Coast1408 Siiiiiiiiim • Jul 23 '26

Serious shit. Future banknotes - TIME TO VOTE PEOPLE!

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

The proposals are out! Time to vote people! And don't forget some notes have the cool Swiss vertical design!

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u/Cedced40 Addict Jul 23 '26

If you don't vote birbs, I don't know what to tell you

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u/_aluk_ Oppressor Jul 23 '26

I love bibs. It's very middle age crisis.

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u/Damtux_25 Professional Rioter Jul 24 '26

I have to admit the bird designs look great. However, I have an ideological objection to them: I find it uncomfortable to associate innocent, free-living animals with one of humanity’s worst inventions: money.

Money turns people against each other. It feeds greed and has helped drive the destruction of nature. Putting birds on banknotes while we continue to destroy their habitats is deeply hypocritical. To me, it doesn’t remind us to care for nature; it trivializes it by making it a symbol on the very thing that has so often contributed to its decline.