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Why is the $ sign on our keyboards? and not the € :))

I know we all use our smart phones to write stuff, and I am OK with it. But when you work with numbers and with different currencies...what is your biggest need? If you don`t know, I am going to tell you that the biggest need is the € sign on your keyboard! :)
But first I want to tell you a smart way of getting an alt-code short-cut to the € sign:

"How to type Euro Sign by using its Alt Code value €
§       Make sure you switch on the NumLock, press and hold down the Alt key,
§     type the Alt Code value of the Euro Sign 01 2 8 on the numeric pad, release the Alt key and you got a € Euro Sign.
Above mentioned procedure is not applicable for MacOS. To type an Euro Sign on MacOS, press and hold down the alt(option) key and then type letter E."
*this is the property of https://www.alt-codes.net/euro_alt_code.php

It did not worked for me :) maybe I did something wrong, but whatever.....I hope it will help you guys ;)
Anyway, back to the drawing-board with this subject. Just because everything it is made in China, Taiwan, Korea or other country that buys and sells shit with $,  I have to have a useless feature on my keyboard?! Why is that?
Yes, I know that the $ is the first currency that had been approved by the Bretton Woods Agreement back in 1944(I think you knew that already,right ?:))) and that from moment on, 44 allied countries chose to keep their reserves in $ just to be fair in the future foreign exchange between them. The allied countries couldn't`t store the reserves in gold, but America had the world largest gold reserves and the $ so it was one easy choice. 
What about the €? It is fresh, stronger then the $ but still, it didn`t succeeded in overtaking it. Fresh since 1999 when it was all virtual stuff (traveller`s cheques, electronic transfers, banking, etc), and real notes and real coins started to circulate in 2002. 
Not like the $, that took birth around the WWII, € had some interesting openings on the market, huge euro pyramid had decorated Syntagma Square in Athens, Paris's Pont Neuf was decorated in EU colours and a symbolic funeral for the Deutsche Mark took place in Gifhorn, a small town in Northern Germany. Stronger, by default...look at the exchange rates and you`ll see the difference. 
So, the dollar is still the most redeemable currency for facilitating world commerce, and that`s why everything being sold in $, you get your  $ sign on your keyboard back at home or at the office.
I think that this needs to be changed or given as an alternative.
Buy local products!!!


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