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  1.  @wiryantirta  Singapore/Japan: "First time?"
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  2.  @SM-ce1uy  And the legacy of communism lives on.
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  3. Because the older generations pissed it all away living the comfortable but unsustainable life.
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  4. It's 9-9-6. Not 5.
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  5. Working-class Chinese have just entered the chat after finishing their 9-9-6.
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  6.  @brybryguy6314  And is just living off of German largesse.
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  7. Namely Germans.
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  8. Greece ran out of German people's money.
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  9. Socialism did Greece in.
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  10. You have a far-left government in charge now.
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  11. Pretty much. And they went bankrupt because they couldn't afford the easy life that had to be paid for by debt and German taxpayers to compensate for the lack of local industry.
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  12. Does Sweden, France, UK, Ireland, etc. ring a bell?
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  13. But Greece is dealing with the fallout of socialist rule.
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  14. What's the point of life if all you do is party and BS?
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  15. But Greece brought it upon itself with its unsustainable low retirement age and bloated benefits that required outside money to fund it because Greece's economy wasn't big enough to support it.
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  16. Greece's birth rate been going down well before this.
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  17. Those people are in the minority, though.
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  18. No. This is the fallout of Greece's living beyond its means for decades under far-left leadership.
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  19. You misspelled socialism. And socialism is the reason for Greece's current situation no longer having Germany's money to live off of to pay for its early retirement.
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  20. It's not like they were having families anyway when they lived the "good" life at Germany's expense for decades.
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  21.  @ProjectExMachina  It is as the descendants, beneficiaries and ex-members are the leaders in Eastern Europe.
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  22. Greece is paying the price for living beyond its means for decades under left-wing uber-socialist governance. Conservative governance is long overdue.
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  23. That's just English Canada. Quebec doesn't have that kind of problem.
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  24. <Companies don't have enough workers because they refuse to raise salaries.> And they refuse to raise salaries, because that = higher operating costs and payroll tax to pay. <Meanwhile, these companies increase their earnings every year and board members raise their salaries all the time. The issue is corporate greed, as in all countries> Most people don't work for corporations. They work for small and mid-level business.
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  25.  @xoanwahn  <which means less money in the pockets of shareholders and board members to spend on their yachts. Poor things. > No. Which means more automation, more layoffs, more people on the dole who were once taxpayers, more debt, borrowing and higher taxes on other workers to make up for that lost tax base.
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  26. China has just entered the chat.
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  27. Only to mismanage them into insolvency and the people end up on the unemployment line.
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  28. For what? Blame the PASOK and anyone who voted for them.
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  29. What world? And Greece is dealing with fallout of left-wing mismanagement.
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  30. Did they procreate when the conditions were better?
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  31. The price to pay for partying and BS-ing on Germany's dime.
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  32. And living "the good life" at Germany's expense.
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  33. Nah. Someone has to work for the benefits of 50-year-old local pensioners.
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  34. No. It's Greece having to pay the price for living beyond its means for decades under left-wing leadership.
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  35. The people of Greece got what they voted for. Short-term comfortable living, long-term economic misery.
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  36. What unregulated capitalism? Socialism and left-wing social spending policies are why Greece has to resort to this to get itself back on its feet.
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  37.  @Delilah-zd3em  Asia lives to work. Africa lives to work. This is more a European thing.
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  38. Greece was ruined by socialism. This is just the fallout.
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  39. How so? It's wither that or accept mass immigration as Greece don't a sufficient amount of young people to keep the country afloat. Never mind the ridiculously low retirement age.
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  40. EU people are just spoiled.
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  41.  @gordonwilkinson5041  A 6-day work week is standard in most of the world.
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  42. You mean pay for more public-sector government workers who barely even show up for work at all and their pensions they get to enjoy at 50.
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  43. Greece actually has workers?
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  44. Better than socialism. State above people.
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  45. Only for that money to become worthless and inevitably you're going to have to work just so you don't starve.
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  46. Why should the rich share with the common person? The rich owe no one except maybe whoever they do business with anything.
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  47. Fixing the problems caused by socialism. Greece was part of the PIIGS for a reason.
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  48. They didn't have children when they lived the good life at Germany's expense.
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  49. < It's the same party who bankrupted the state more than a decade ago.> Wrong! It was PASOK, a left-wing party, responsible for Greece's meltdown in 2011. Greece wasn't part of the PIIGS for no reason.
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  50. They're not legally allowed to complain. LOL
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  51. Greece set itself up for that. It's just a small price to pay for the easy life it wanted to enjoy at someone else's expense as it didn't have the means to support it on its own.
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  52. That the people happily voted for sacrificing long-term sustainability for short-term easy living on Germany's dime.
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  53. How so? It's not like the Greeks bothered to have families when times were good and only had to be 50 to collect pension.
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  54. To fix the mess left behind by far-left weirdos that made the country insolvent and unproductive.
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  55. Greece was done in by socialism.
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  56.  @tweetyericsson  Not really. Greece is paying the price for living beyond its means for decades.
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  57. Which happens to be long overdue after decades of left-wing debt-financing, lavish social spending and economic mismanagement.
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  58. Yes you can. Communist countries did it.
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  59. Because the government made it too costly to.
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  60. First it was Germany. And now it's younger locals.
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  61. And they also scrapped the one-child policy.
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  62. The 5-day work week is working pretty fine here in Canada.
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  63.  @moderndemon84  You got it backwards. Greece has been living off of Germany ever since it was admitted into the EU.
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  64. And apparently there's no more German money to subsidize their lifestyles.
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  65. Exactly.
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