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A lot of lines at the ATMs waiting for the 60 euros but other than that not much is different. There's a lot of discussion and confrontation about the referendum but nothing describes the situation as despair simply because Greece has been suffering under the troika regime for 5 years and we have not much to lose.
A couple of days ago I saw someone offering a pita gyros (greek sandwitch) to a very old homeless lady sleeping at the bus stop, a common occurrence here the last few years so you can't expect us to panic over the banks closing. Most of us don't have anything in them anyway.
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Thanks, it sounds like what /u/pipispapas wrote, that people are fatalistic and tired. Are you going to vote yes or no in the referendum? ie stay in the Eurozone or leave?
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I'm going to vote no.
I think that Euro is a disaster of a currency that no sane economist would have ever approved before an actual political and economic unification of Europe so the only logical assumption that I can make is that they wanted this. They wanted a crisis so that they can ruin Europe's social safety net, can cut pensions and salaries and sell off our countries' national wealth to corporations. Naomi Klein indirectly predicted everything that happens now in the Shock Doctrine, an excellent book explaining how neoliberals create and then exploit crisis to shock entire populations into submission and rob them of their rights, salaries, pensions and so on. I read that book in 2007 and watched history repeat itself with shocking accuracy three years later. Only this time it wasn't Latin America being attacked, it was my country. So hell no, no way I'm voting for neoliberal policies that will turn my country into a mere colony to corporate interests.
I don't read fatalistic or tired in their responses. On the contrary. I read resilience and solidarity. The corporations and their pet politicians may carve up a country as much as they like, people will find a way to survive. Besides, it is not as if there is no wealth in Greece. There is enough to carve up and share around to the people. Bet the corporations won't like that though.
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[–] Guerilla 0 points 30 points 30 points (+30|-0) ago (edited ago)
A lot of lines at the ATMs waiting for the 60 euros but other than that not much is different. There's a lot of discussion and confrontation about the referendum but nothing describes the situation as despair simply because Greece has been suffering under the troika regime for 5 years and we have not much to lose.
A couple of days ago I saw someone offering a pita gyros (greek sandwitch) to a very old homeless lady sleeping at the bus stop, a common occurrence here the last few years so you can't expect us to panic over the banks closing. Most of us don't have anything in them anyway.
[–] Rea11yN0tMe [S] 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago (edited ago)
Thanks, it sounds like what /u/pipispapas wrote, that people are fatalistic and tired. Are you going to vote yes or no in the referendum? ie stay in the Eurozone or leave?
[–] Guerilla 1 point 44 points 45 points (+45|-1) ago (edited ago)
I'm going to vote no.
I think that Euro is a disaster of a currency that no sane economist would have ever approved before an actual political and economic unification of Europe so the only logical assumption that I can make is that they wanted this. They wanted a crisis so that they can ruin Europe's social safety net, can cut pensions and salaries and sell off our countries' national wealth to corporations. Naomi Klein indirectly predicted everything that happens now in the Shock Doctrine, an excellent book explaining how neoliberals create and then exploit crisis to shock entire populations into submission and rob them of their rights, salaries, pensions and so on. I read that book in 2007 and watched history repeat itself with shocking accuracy three years later. Only this time it wasn't Latin America being attacked, it was my country. So hell no, no way I'm voting for neoliberal policies that will turn my country into a mere colony to corporate interests.
[–] Homo_ludens 1 point 9 points 10 points (+10|-1) ago
I don't read fatalistic or tired in their responses. On the contrary. I read resilience and solidarity. The corporations and their pet politicians may carve up a country as much as they like, people will find a way to survive. Besides, it is not as if there is no wealth in Greece. There is enough to carve up and share around to the people. Bet the corporations won't like that though.