BUT CAPITALISM IS GOOD
My thoughts are to greece and their financial meltdown. Capitalism's a bitch.
Its the same in Croatia, people digging through dumpsters and collecting bottles for a living. It became so mundane here i dont even pay attention to it anymore
Well, though most will probably call Bullshit on this one but it's actually true:And here is something even more incredible - i've seen a few here in Latvia as well, holy shit :shock:
We have those people even in Germany. Collecting bottles during football matches to get the return, dumpster diving at supermarkets or restaurants...
We have those people even in Germany. Collecting bottles during football matches to get the return, dumpster diving at supermarkets or restaurants...
Yeah, a lot of homeless and unemployed do that.Since you can make a lot of money from that, its not so bad.
The best thing is that you dont have to take your bottles with you or search for a bin to throw them away, just leave them standing and those people will collect it for you :D
You're indeed happy people if you never saw that before. I got used to it.
Unfortunaly, or fortunatly, soon come the water wars. The current oil wars are nothing to what's coming, oil is a commodity but water a nessecity, and soon we will see what comes of so massively overpopulating our planet.
I just wrote my dissertation on this. I'm sorry, but water wars are unlikely to ever happen. Academics largely agree on this. The only people who support the potential for water wars are largely popularist writers and newspapers. I could sum up the reasons why quite quickly. Even the limits to growth argument (over population) has A LOT of flaws.
Some days ago I was chilling at my balcony and I saw an old man searching the dumpster for food,I never felt so sad and angry at the same time,I could not stop the tears from falling from my eyes but at the same time I was so angry that I wasnt able to help people him,fuck that shit,Greece is slowly dying..
You could make a minigame at halftime: hit the homeless with your bottles...They dont need to walk to collect them, and you can give points for range, airtime, etc
Thats kind of disrespectful.
You know, they are still human :D
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Out of the two of us, I honestly believe I have spent longer living on the street. While this isn't a boast, if you had bothered to read the earlier posts you would see my actual feelings about humanity. I am not honestly recommending throwing bottles at homeless people, but you get to a point in life when there are no limits you wont go to conversationally, I'm happy in myself and dont have to judge myself by your standards, and if I say it would be amusing, it would be amusing. That doesnt mean I am going to do it.
Sorry to cut your little idiocy festival, but you guys DO know Greece is not a capitalist country, right?
How did you work that out?
I'm really sorry for the greek situation, and i'm really worried about situation at home and eu future.
I think EU was just a bluff politically, and the financial markets got it. Eu "help" to greece sounds more a punishment then an help for example.
Now or we change and have better rules, more choesion and development for all, or we'll all sink.
Germany should also grow up and stop acting like masters of europe, eu wasn't made for their benefit only, nor countries like greece spain italy can't magically turn into germany just because merkel wants it. The Sarkomerkel axis approach the the chrisis was horrible with the austerity-recession-more austerity suicidal circle, now greece it's out of debt market, spain and italy have to finance themself at horrible rates while germany have almost negative values lol.
Let's make togheter some fucking eurobonds, open an EU rating agency quickly, in short do something to show Europe really exist and doesn't let entire nations starve to death and i'm sure Eu will go out from this credit crysis.
The choice only exists between austerity and growth through endebtment. During the 70's crisis most western countries practised loldevaluation and lolletsbuildthings which actually ruined their finances and forced them to pay humongous interest money. Most of these states are still not done with their debt today. Enterprises pushed by artificial government spending wouldn't be profitable without it and as such are not sustainable. That's paper growth.
Decreasing the debt and reducing the interest expenses of the state, that allows much larger stimulus to be done later and in a much safer and balanced way, such as reducing taxes.
Greek is a socialist country that had capitalist dream
No, in fact Greece used to be capitalist.
tl;dr recent history:
Greece in the 70's got a pro-US military Junta that liberalized trade, freed the economy etc. This period was called the "Greek economic miracle" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_economic_miracle) where Greece had the 2nd highest economic growth in the world as well as an impressive HDI growth. Essentially, this period made us first world. We used to produce cars, electicity, technology, refine oil. heck, we used to have THE biggest merchant fleet in the world.
Then the Junta fell by, unfortunately, socialists. They set up a new system based on socialism. Wages were quadripled in almost 4 years, taxes were doubled, regulations and the public sector became endlessly bigger.
Obviously, Greek industry collapsed and the public sector continued to bloat leading the modern situation where Greece is doomed financially.
And that is why I hate nothing more than socialists. Commies are stupid enough for their stupidity to be obvious enough to never be elected but socialists sugar coat their piece of shit ideology and they manage to get elected and ruin nations, including mine.
Seriously, fuck socialism.
Socialism is based on production, the leader's of Greece may have called themselves socialists, but they did not practise. Forcing a woman to have sex and calling it love doesn't stop it being rape. Dont blame socialism, blame greedy corrupt ppl, the idea is good, the people are weak. Humanity is what fails, not the ideal of wealth for all based on production. The govermental public sector enlargement is the first sign of corruption tbh...
That sounds reasonable, but then why greece is in deep shit with most of europe? Greece did all EU demanded, they cutted everything taxed everything privatized everything and look at them now...
Usa Obama approach seems more effective, first increase in state spendings to encourage the economy, and only after the cuts.
meanwhile in Québec we are currently under the biggest strike (or boycott as gouv said) because the government want to put the university cost up of 325$ per years for five year... total cost at the end will be around 3000$ per years