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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6/ With all due apologies to any Greeks reading this...but if the Euro/EC was a bad idea, Greece is a silly reason for it to be in crisis.
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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

