1/ Greece is an aging country with a population of ~11 million and a GDP of ~242 billion. SV: 7 million, 535B.
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2/ If you set aside sentiment, there's no good reason for Greece to exist. Let Louvre take antiquities. Let Disney manage historic sites...
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3/ ...sell a bunch of islands to Russian and SV billionaires, make rest an open terra nulius for governance experiments
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4/ They've had 3000 year run. Their heritage is more secure in rest of west than at home. Dismantle. Reboot. Why is this world-level thing?
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5/ There are probably ~50 metro areas with more critical problems, more importance to the future, more worth world-level attention to save
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the reason the EZ is poorly designed is that a small country like Greece can throw it into crisis. causality is backwards
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Yeah, but it's also provoking a very situation-specific response to fix the EZ
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like the US being in constant crisis because Louisiana's competitiveness is not up to par with NY, SF and Chicago
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Greece is just the excuse. This is a battle for rulership of the Eurozone and the EU
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Might be, but the serious reason to be in crisis is a bit to scary. Nice to blame someone else... like kids do "It was not me, mummy"




