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[–]Soupias0 points
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People are surprisingly calm about it. If you exclude the ATM queues, everything is business as usual. After 5 years of being told that 'you are on the brink of the abyss' people do not care that much. We are on a difficult spot where we have to chose between:
Voting yes, and keep on an austerity program that clearly does not work and makes things worse.
Voting no, and go into uncharted waters with the hope that after some time things will get better.
I would like to stay that the dominant way of thinking about this is as follows:
-Most people thinking of voting no. Even if it leads to dangerous waters.
-People think that the austerity program is not working.
-People think that it is better to risk it all than stick with something that does not work. They see the program as postponing the inevitable. They are voting NO and it is not that they do not want to 'Pay the debts'. Most people are OK with austerity and recognise the need to reform. It is just that austerity brings further recession and the debt is getting bigger instead of smaller. The thing is that financially active people are getting less and less as more are joining the unemployment line. In order to get the results that Europe wants they are trying to squeeze more and more money out of a shrinking portion of the population, those that still have a job.
When you are about 30% unemployment and you vote for measures that are certain to bring further recession, what can you hope for?
TL;DR: The vast majority of Greeks would accept a painful program that would bring results but are against one that does not work. They feel that all this we have been through in the last five years are for nothing. It is not like we are ate square zero, we are in even worse shape than when all this started.
I think I would also go with no. There will be some time of chaos with a devalued Drachma because imports will become drastically more expensive, especially petrol. But at the same time Greece becomes more competitive as well. For example I can see a big upswing in tourism when Greece becomes an affordable destination again. So all the best from my corner of the Internet!
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[–] Soupias 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
People are surprisingly calm about it. If you exclude the ATM queues, everything is business as usual. After 5 years of being told that 'you are on the brink of the abyss' people do not care that much. We are on a difficult spot where we have to chose between:
I would like to stay that the dominant way of thinking about this is as follows: -Most people thinking of voting no. Even if it leads to dangerous waters. -People think that the austerity program is not working. -People think that it is better to risk it all than stick with something that does not work. They see the program as postponing the inevitable. They are voting NO and it is not that they do not want to 'Pay the debts'. Most people are OK with austerity and recognise the need to reform. It is just that austerity brings further recession and the debt is getting bigger instead of smaller. The thing is that financially active people are getting less and less as more are joining the unemployment line. In order to get the results that Europe wants they are trying to squeeze more and more money out of a shrinking portion of the population, those that still have a job.
When you are about 30% unemployment and you vote for measures that are certain to bring further recession, what can you hope for?
TL;DR: The vast majority of Greeks would accept a painful program that would bring results but are against one that does not work. They feel that all this we have been through in the last five years are for nothing. It is not like we are ate square zero, we are in even worse shape than when all this started.
[–] Rea11yN0tMe [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I think I would also go with no. There will be some time of chaos with a devalued Drachma because imports will become drastically more expensive, especially petrol. But at the same time Greece becomes more competitive as well. For example I can see a big upswing in tourism when Greece becomes an affordable destination again. So all the best from my corner of the Internet!