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« on: July 17, 2015, 09:19 »
It's difficult for me to imagine an advertising agency not using photo editing software.
An advertising agency. But millions of customers are not agencies. They are normal business users, that just download files into their documents reports, or into their template for the website.
That is why creating images with text in different languages keeps selling, if people find something finished and ready for use, that is what they take.
How many buyers spend $2,400 per year on photos for those uses and not using photo editing software? I bet it's not too high a percentage. If you are spending that much money you most likely doing it to make money, read the license that's what people are buying the images for.
You mean all those "Your text here images" ready to use, just drop it in your website, no editing necessary.
When I find my images used on the internet, I very, very, seldom see them processed. Of course, there are other usages than blogs or company websites, and you can be right. Even if so, I personally don't have the facts to confirm it. Or maybe it is just my type of stock.
2253
« on: July 13, 2015, 21:55 »
... while producing my art...
Microstock is not art. It is rather a craft. For some it can even be a profession. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
2254
« on: July 11, 2015, 14:05 »
coming here to spew bigotry and misogyny ... been banned ...over and over again.
... they will lose yet another Valuable Member ...
Wow! And how would you call this syndrome?
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« on: July 11, 2015, 12:32 »
You said it very well: thank God it is NOT a monopoly!
But you always want to have the last word, no matter how absurd your claim is, continously embarrassing yourself.
Not like you care, anyway.
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2256
« on: July 11, 2015, 12:07 »
life is unfair.
Says someone concerned with social justice in other threads.... right. Fairness is good, as long as it is not up to me to be fair.
You comment is out of line.
i stand by my words, 100%.
I have no doubt. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" Leo Tolstoy Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
2257
« on: July 11, 2015, 11:25 »
The orthodox church has a strong voice in the Greek society and a strong influence in all elections.
No party had the guts to cut their benefits and all kept on paying the church a "protection tax" or "lobbying fee".
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2258
« on: July 11, 2015, 10:36 »
life is unfair.
Says someone concerned with social justice in other threads.... right. Fairness is good, as long as it is not up to me to be fair. You comment is out of line.
2259
« on: July 11, 2015, 10:19 »
To work for free for a for-profit corporation IS stupid. For many reasons, but a big one is that corporate CEOs are paid more and more relative to their employees, and volunteering your time just gives those CEOs a bigger paycheck and more and more disdain for the people who toil for them.
It just feeds into this growing belief that people should work for free, and that photos, art, music, writing, etc. should be free for the taking. But the people who want everything for free expect to be well compensated for their own time, of course.
Please don't call those generous YouTube uploaders "stupid". I learnt so much from them. From photography tutorials, to hardwood flooring, washing machine repair etc. YouTube creators and Google deserve all of our respect for facilitating these discussions, for having the idea and the guts to implement it and, since then, changing they way we learn new things.
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« on: July 11, 2015, 04:21 »
I'll quote someone who explains well why you are wrong:
"If competition is viewed as a dynamic, rivalrous process of entrepreneurship, then the fact that a single producer happens to have the lowest costs at any one point in time is of little or no consequence. The enduring forces of competition including potential competition will render free-market monopoly an impossibility.
The theory of natural monopoly is also ahistorical. There is no evidence of the "natural-monopoly" story ever having been carried out of one producer achieving lower long-run average total costs than everyone else in the industry and thereby establishing a permanent monopoly."
"Specifically, there is no historic precedent of a free-market monopoly (i.e. monopoly not aided by government legislation) which resulted in higher prices to consumers.
The reason is that any attempt by a successful company to use its market share against the preferences of consumers would immediately create an opening for its competitors to increase their market share"
if this was true how can you explain the long standing duopoly Canon/Nikon in the DSLR market ?
and while we're writing in a stock industry forum, how do you explain the actual "big-4" monopoly in the stock market, which is now maybe a Big-3 scenario as DT is shifting to the Low-Earners underworld ?
talking about DSLR lenses and competition, all we have is Canon/Nikon with just a handful of good lenses made by Sigma/Tamron/Tokina so basically a triad unless you own a Sony/Fuji/Pentax/Leica or you're a Zeiss freak.
as for tripods, lemme see ... Manfrotto, Gitzo (owned by Manfrotto), and what else ?
or filters ... B+W .. Hoya ...and 
memory cards ... Sandisk, Crucial, and ..
camera bags ... LowePro, Tamrac, ThinkTank, CaseLogic ... and
Oh my god! These are not monopolies, my dear friend, but companies in competition with each other, which happen to offer the best price/quality products, these days. You call the Canon-Nikon war, a monopoly?  Besides, nobody forces you to buy Canon nor Nikon. Sony makes great cameras. Maybe even better cameras. You can still buy Pentax, if you want. You can buy Leica, if you feel fancy and want to throw your money away. Why stopping here, use you smartphone camera, for God sake. These things have eaten up a great piece of the Canon/Nikon pie, forcing them to innovate. Why has their compact camera business virtually dissapeared, if not because Apple has innovated and caught them by surprise? Why don't you give me the Kodak example? Where is that "Kodak moment"? Speaking about smartphones, where are those previously universal Nokia phones, my friend? Where are those ugly Ericsson phones? You forget another simple economical fact: big companies have the opportunity to be efficient through economy of scale and streamlined processes. This is good for consumers! Because they make more efficient use of the capital (until they become too big, too bureaucratic and fall into pieces) A DSLR could be bloddy expensive, if made manually in a mom and pop shop, if pop takes 1 year, to manually polish your lens. How can mom and pop continously innovate, while polishing that lens? Or maybe you want a government to start building DSLRs? I'm sure that those DSLRs will be cheaper and much better for consumers than nikon/canon, because governments know better what's good for people! An idea for your friend, Tsipras! Go Greece! Make us a good DSLR and stick it to those greedy corporate *insult removed*! I'll not even bother to go into details on the other brands, because this is a total waste of time (fyi, I own 2 Vanguard tripods and a Vanguard backpack  ) You have already proven yourself wrong. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 10, 2015, 22:14 »
Free market would be
every possible economic scenario including first and foremost the so called Free Market is doomed to end up into a total monopoly of the richest families owning the whole economy and banking system and by proxy having power toward the politics and the military.
communism, capitalism, hybrids, it's just a matter of time and that's why they all fail following a typical "boom/bust cycle" over time.
failure is usually caused by wars but in fact wars can only happen when the state is no longer able to defend its borders ... chain effect ... rooted in the unsustainability of the economic model itself !
I'll quote someone who explains well why you are wrong: "If competition is viewed as a dynamic, rivalrous process of entrepreneurship, then the fact that a single producer happens to have the lowest costs at any one point in time is of little or no consequence. The enduring forces of competition including potential competition will render free-market monopoly an impossibility. The theory of natural monopoly is also ahistorical. There is no evidence of the "natural-monopoly" story ever having been carried out of one producer achieving lower long-run average total costs than everyone else in the industry and thereby establishing a permanent monopoly." "Specifically, there is no historic precedent of a free-market monopoly (i.e. monopoly not aided by government legislation) which resulted in higher prices to consumers. The reason is that any attempt by a successful company to use its market share against the preferences of consumers would immediately create an opening for its competitors to increase their market share" And back to the clasics: https://youtu.be/tdLBzfFGFQUSent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 10, 2015, 15:16 »
I have always stated that the "solution" praised by the "Go Greece" cheerleaders is the worst. Instead of taking corrective actions to move towards that truly free economy, it goes backwards, re-inventing wheels that never worked.
but again you can't turn greece overnight into a seaside version of germany.
the sistemic problems affecting greece go back to 3000 yrs ago, it's nothing new and there's no fix for that.
sure many things can be improved but not the overall result.
in plus all the best and brightest have already left the country for greener pastures as they're not stupid and they know the score ...
i'm certainly a "go greece" cheerleader but c'mon let us enjoy this small pyrrhic victory ... greece is f'ked anyway but at least they had the balls to smack the bankers for a while and the eurocrats are finally showing their true face for all to see.
And this is in line with what you consider utopia. The very fact that the whole world is able to debate the matter (this forum included) makes also possible to see those true colors. Both of those so called eurocrats, as well as the colors of those communist populist leftist utopic parties. The public exposure makes them more and more aware that we care about their actions. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 10, 2015, 14:57 »
A state controlled economy is full, or only made of those monopolies you mentioned. And there is no way to break them.
On the other hand, in a free economy, there will always be some creative entrepreneur with a better service or a new technology, ready to chip market shares from that big (bureaucratic and unflexible by now) company.
China is a mixed economy and is doing very well, the problem is corruption and mismanagement, not the whole idea of state-owned enterprises.
pushing the Free economy to the limit you reach the point where even water is sold by private companies, which has been tried disastrously in california already.
moreover, the market leaders always end up creating a price cartel so all the benefits of the free market cease to exist in the long run.
competition is healthy but can't last too long due to the bigger players doing M&A and enlarging their market share little by little.
ideally, private enterprise should be limited to industries and services that are not mission critical for the well being of the population .. nobody is complaining the state is not producing cars or fashion items, but banks in particular should be only run and owned by the state along with water, gas, electricity and low cost public housing.
if housing is now untolerable in europe's bigger cities is exactly because the govs stopped building council homes for the poors and the greed of the real estate market knows no bounds ... nobody needs this kind of robbing capitalism we're witnessing now not to mention it's spreading like a virus in any possible niche eroding our buying power, first it's real estate and next it will be healthcare and schools just like in the US.
The water is a problem in California, exactly because it is subsidized or subject to price control. Californian farmers grow tropical crops in the desert, because the water is so cheap. And this is creating the scarcity, exactly like subsidezed bread will lead to bread scarcity and black markets. About house prices: rent control kills developers incentive to build new houses. Too many government imposed zoning restrictions makes difficult to build new houses. On the other hand rent control is not applicable to luxury homes, therefore developers will only invest in expensive new houses. This is the reason why in rent controlled cities like New York, etc housing costs are extremely high. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 10, 2015, 12:35 »
Then we agree on basic...that's first good step
I don't believe in responsible politicians at first place , if there were honest and responsible they would have never make it to the voting list of their party at the first place and not to mention higher levels of politics on which corruption plays major role. The elections are won by whom has more money and that's a scientifically proven , honest man has same chances as calf in slaughterhouse because firstly no corporate money will stand to back him up and secondly those who own media will discredit him big time.
I believe the system that you and me can agree on being honest can only be built from scratch again and that it should be done by people spontaneously instead of using politics which doesn't represent interest of people nor ever have.
The difference between you and me is that I'm rather optimistic while you are not, even if you call yourself a dreamer. The world of politics is changing fast. The old media empires, while still powerful, have less and less influence in competition with the new media. Open border structures, like internet, are good for society. Open border structures, like free trade are good for society. Open border structures, like an economy with minimal government intervention are good for society. This is why, I'm optimistic that, we will see more and more a change in our politicians. And we all play a decisive role in this change, as long as we don't fall for the sirens call. This can only lead to the better world you are dreaming of. The fact that Tsipras flip-flopped is a perfect example.
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« on: July 10, 2015, 12:05 »
In a few years we all will look back on these years as the good old days. The TTIP will succeed and the Corporate Oligarchs will convert Europe into something unrecognizable to what it is today. Under the slogan of fair trade there will be an attack on environmental laws, workers issues, even cultural differences. I have been to 3 demonstrations here in Munich but I know the New Aristocracy will keep pushing until they get what they want. Say hello to Monsanto and the false God of corporate efficiency.
These trade agreements have destroyed the American middle class and TTIP is coming to Europe in all its glory . . . .
Even if I fully agree with you with and we see same image of the plan of our future and even its bad like it is, there can be positive things that will rise from that for sure.
Firstly the awareness of people is rising at very high rate, regarding politicians dirty plans and corporate attempts to completely take the wheel of the world. Movements like Ubuntu are growing like mushroom after rain and 20 years ago only few rares even talked about the problem that will show up or already are.
The more successful the are in implementing things like TTIP more faster their ship will sunk because it benefits only a small minority of people while the other side will go down exponentially faster and the agony of loosing middle class and turning them into poor people will be way shorter and people will be forced to change their life styles and to turn in more sustainable direction of partially or fully growing their own food, getting back to lost habits of exchanging favors instead of paying for them and so on...
Due to their insane claims about climate with goal of rising the prices of energetic people will be forced turn to alternatives that are totally unused in their capacity today or even vast majority of people don't even know they exist.
I totally believe that Leonardo Da Vinci was right and that the world will start seeing good times when opposite trends of migration starts happening, from big cities towards rural areas because in cities people are totally dependable on the system they live under.
On one hand you consider yourself a dreamer (like John Lennon):
Im fist for globalization, I see no difference between any man whatever language he speaks or whatever paper they made him carry in his pocket, respect them all equally couldn't care less for countries and borders
On the other hand, when an agreement is about to be made in that direction, meant to overcome artificial borders and open up the trade to more competition, you are against it.
Make up your mind, my friend! You can't have one without the other.
Competition means progress for the society, even if some must pay the price for being inflexible in fast moving world. Don't let yourself influenced by those doom and gloom, end-of-the-world scenarios from cheap sci-fi movies.
Closed borders and protectionism mean stagnation or decay.
Once again, you will never understand what Im saying in that state of mind because your inner translator is set on different level.
You are speaking in favor of open trade and free economy...yet you are defending the system that encouraging totally opposite values behind the mask...
No, you got it wrong. I never defended the current system, since a lot more can be done to move it towards a free market economy, indeed. I have always stated that the "solution" praised by the "Go Greece" cheerleaders is the worst. Instead of taking corrective actions to move towards that truly free economy, it goes backwards, re-inventing wheels that never worked. And it took all this circus for Tsipras to realize it. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 10, 2015, 10:46 »
In a few years we all will look back on these years as the good old days. The TTIP will succeed and the Corporate Oligarchs will convert Europe into something unrecognizable to what it is today. Under the slogan of fair trade there will be an attack on environmental laws, workers issues, even cultural differences. I have been to 3 demonstrations here in Munich but I know the New Aristocracy will keep pushing until they get what they want. Say hello to Monsanto and the false God of corporate efficiency.
These trade agreements have destroyed the American middle class and TTIP is coming to Europe in all its glory . . . .
Even if I fully agree with you with and we see same image of the plan of our future and even its bad like it is, there can be positive things that will rise from that for sure.
Firstly the awareness of people is rising at very high rate, regarding politicians dirty plans and corporate attempts to completely take the wheel of the world. Movements like Ubuntu are growing like mushroom after rain and 20 years ago only few rares even talked about the problem that will show up or already are.
The more successful the are in implementing things like TTIP more faster their ship will sunk because it benefits only a small minority of people while the other side will go down exponentially faster and the agony of loosing middle class and turning them into poor people will be way shorter and people will be forced to change their life styles and to turn in more sustainable direction of partially or fully growing their own food, getting back to lost habits of exchanging favors instead of paying for them and so on...
Due to their insane claims about climate with goal of rising the prices of energetic people will be forced turn to alternatives that are totally unused in their capacity today or even vast majority of people don't even know they exist.
I totally believe that Leonardo Da Vinci was right and that the world will start seeing good times when opposite trends of migration starts happening, from big cities towards rural areas because in cities people are totally dependable on the system they live under.
On one hand you consider yourself a dreamer (like John Lennon): Im fist for globalization, I see no difference between any man whatever language he speaks or whatever paper they made him carry in his pocket, respect them all equally couldn't care less for countries and borders
On the other hand, when an agreement is about to be made in that direction, meant to overcome artificial borders and open up the trade to more competition, you are against it. Make up your mind, my friend! You can't have one without the other. Competition means progress for the society, even if some must pay the price for being inflexible in fast moving world. Don't let yourself influenced by those doom and gloom, end-of-the-world scenarios from cheap sci-fi movies. Closed borders and protectionism mean stagnation or decay.
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« on: July 10, 2015, 07:27 »
This is why, the first time, I even partially agree with you: some of the issues you mentioned are true, some are exagerated and some are false.
The government intervention in economy, limits or distorts the competition.
Back to Greece. Read the new reform package signed by Tsipras.
These are the toughest reforms Greece has ever agreed with.
nothing has been signed yet, the latest news are about something big being discussed tomorrow or sunday but at this point it seems an agreement has been reached for 12 billions over 3 yrs and new draconian cuts in the public sector.
so, overall a decent deal for both parties, but ...
as for competition, it all ends up in a monopoly or a cartel sooner or later, of course while it lasts it's beneficial for consumers but it never lasts forever, this is obvious looking at pretty much any industry.
actually new technologies are the only disrupting factor that can change an industry overnight but once the technological gap is absorbed it's back to business as usual.
A state controlled economy is full, or only made of those monopolies you mentioned. And there is no way to break them. On the other hand, in a free economy, there will always be some creative entrepreneur with a better service or a new technology, ready to chip market shares from that big (bureaucratic and unflexible by now) company. Back to Greece. What is important is that Tsipras himself has capitulated.It is very unlikely to see this package rejected. This "Go Greece" euphoria will have to face the reality, one way or another. Too bad Greeks still have to go through this ordeal, with banks closed, empty supermarkets, fear and uncertainty because of irresponsible politicians. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 10, 2015, 06:38 »
Even more "shocking": food in Germany is more expensive than in USA. I wonder why? Hmmm....
because it's like comparing apples and oranges.
taxation is lower in the USA, the Unions have been almost killed in the 80s with Reaganomics, there's no Minimum Wage and even if there was they would find a way to recoup the costs in other ways, millions of unskilled workers who are paid a pittance while keeping wages below the poverty line, and since it's America they will also blamed and shamed for being enslaved in a low paying job .. in america it's never society being at fault, the blame is always on those at the endpoint of the whole system, there's a good reason they abolished slavery just to replace it with even cheaper salaries and ponzi schemes.
moreover, american workers have barely 2 weeks of paid holiday, most don't have even a basic health insurance, and you'll need to get at least a 50K $ loan to enroll in a decent university.
said that, yes food is cheaper and property is cheaper and oil/gas are also a lot cheaper, but at what price ?
there's always a price to pay, security and crime for instance, and how it can be healthy for a society when a 50K/year salary is barely enough to belong to the lower middle class ?
sure you'll save on food but the next day you'll get a 5000$ bill from your dentist or your doctor, all things that would cost 10x times less anywhere else including germany and while you're busy working your as-s off your wife could be having an affair with someone else and hit you with divorce and lifetime alimony (unheard of in europe, thanks god) ...
I never said life in US is better. Nothing is for free in this world and something gotta give. This is why, for the first time, I even partially agree with you: some of the issues you mentioned are true, some are exagerated and some are false. The only reason I mentioned US is to help you get out of the shock caused by the cheap German food. One more time: strong competition is good for consumers. The government intervention in economy, limits or distorts the competition. This leads to a new equilibrium where prices are always higher. Or to an unstoppable instability and inflation spiral, if the government intervention is beyond the market tolerance. Back to Greece. Read the new reform package signed by Tsipras. These are the toughest reforms Greece has ever agreed with. It is even tougher that the one rejected by the referendum. In a way, the whole thread is now pointless. All this nonsense about greedy capitalists and more is now obsolete. Tsipras did what he was supposed to do before creating all this circus. It remains to be seen if Tsipras will keep his word and implement these reforms, once he gets his hand on the money. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 09, 2015, 20:39 »
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« on: July 09, 2015, 17:28 »
If you visit both countries you'll probably be quite shocked to discover how cheap it is in Germany and also how expensive it can be in France.
actually it's even more shocking because some food items in germany are cheaper than anywhere else in europe ! especially in discount supermarkets like ALDI o LIDL with just 30-40 euro you can fill an entire trolley with food and drinks and it's not necessarily junk food.
And this happens where there is a strong competition on a free market, with little government interference. Or exactly what Greece is asked to implement. Even more "shocking": food in Germany is more expensive than in USA. I wonder why? Hmmm.... Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 09, 2015, 09:54 »
For all those who seriously believe the EU is actually trying to "help" Greece:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/07/greece-financial-elite-democracy-liassez-faire-neoliberalism?CMP=fb_gu
Right! This is a great analysis! So, the alternative to a free market economy is a state controlled economy. Because a state controlled economy is democratic and good for the people! Right! This is why life in a 100% state controlled East Germany was much better than in the West Germany controlled by their greedy capitalists brothers. And this is why North Koreans, in a 100% state controlled economy, are so happy compared with their South Koreans brothers, ruled by Samsung and other ruthless corporations. And this is why Eastern Europeans were so happily queuing for hours for a rationed loaf of bread, oil, sugar, etc, in their democratic 100% state controlled economies We can see more and more the signs of this happiness in the country of Syriza.
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« on: July 09, 2015, 06:31 »
anything tangible that can hold its value in troubled times.
the cost of living is not the issue.
the issue is the lack of jobs and there's no fix for that.
as much as now they hate germany many greeks will end up cleaning toilets in Berlin or Munich as that's where the jobs are.
Actually there is. For starters, the government must liberalize all those "closed" professions, from taxi drivers to notaries and hundreds of other. But unions don't like competition. And communist governments are in bed with unions. Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
2273
« on: July 07, 2015, 17:38 »
This monolithic, centralized, bureaucratic, opaque and anti-democratic organization that the EU has become is killing all of this and that is the reason why we are falling behind. It's blindly creating normalized rules and general impositions based on a couple of countries values, to others with totally different "personalities" and social and economic conditions, steamrolling everything that doesn't fit these few countries view of the world.
That's what happened to the U.S. We were supposed to have a de-centralized government where people in individual sovereign states would have greater controls over their own destinies, but now we're dictated to by a corrupt central authority of leftists that are destroying our country financially and culturally.
Except that the congress is fully controlled by the republicans. What Americans don't realize when they call Obama "leftist", is that, in fact, he is to the right of what Europe calls "right". He is a "leftist" only when compared to the republicans. And that's far, very, very, 3 times very far from Syriza! EU and US are worlds apart. Culturally and politically Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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« on: July 07, 2015, 13:00 »
...sorry, accidental quote instead of modify.
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« on: July 07, 2015, 08:57 »
The economic theory is not a religion you have to believe in, but a science.
And your belief that there is something beyond the obvious, only understood by some "Illuminati", is the real fallacy!
And it's not hilarious, since so many are fooled by it! Fooled by the illusion that wealth will fall from the sky, after an "oxi" vote, in some referendum!
I'll continue to keep it simple for you: what EU wants you to do, is for you to go first to a photography class, before lending you more money to buy even more fancy cameras and lenses.
Simple again: there is nothing wrong to borrow money when you have a sound business plan and your s**t in order. Money lending with interest is the very engine that pushed mankind forward.
I have a mortgage nobody forced me to take. I'm paying my debts every month as I agreed to do, when I signed my contract.
Same goes for Germany at the macro level. Get it? Simple economics!
Countries DO default. Obviously, it doesn't mean the Greeks will be fired from Greece, but rather that Greece will be fired from the international trade as untrustworthy. And believe me, this means that, one way or another, as history proves, Greece will have to adjust. It looks like Greeks have chosen the hard way out!
My only hope is that EU will stay strong, continuing to refuse to fall for Tsipras' bluff, and throw my money into the Greek chaos.
You oversimplify things like loan/debt etc by stripping the economy apart from the driving force that validates its authority ans existence and that force is politics and not the scientific truth in economics,because there is no scientific truth in economics.
Haven't heard that one i bet.
And that belief is your biggest problem!
Your belief illustrates very well what's wrong in Greece!
Leftist central planners, like Tsipras, try to govern by substituting politcs for entrepreneurial judgment and true economics.
They play referendum games, while missing the whole purpose of individual action, competition and efficiency in free markets.
Their politics fool people in believing that no change is needed from within,
because it's always somebody else's fault.
That's politics, indeed. And this has nothing to do with a healthy triving economy. These irresponsible politics are the root cause of all bubbles and crisis. And todays Greece is the perfect example.
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Yes apparently everything is pretty clear in your mind.
Politics destroy the free market who knows whom to reward and whom to condemn.Physical laws is all the economy is,but the politicians came and ruined this simple cause/effect balance sciense perfect system thingy.
You can live and thrive in this existensial crisis (funny that you are the theologist here and you are totally oblivious),and i hope the best to you.
Just bear in mind that one day you might wake up and open a book (which i find unlikely) and realize that the market that you are evangelizing
as being diluted by leftists and communists is the best you are going to get because if im not mistaken the western world is being ruled by liberals during the last 40 years with the same
ideas as you.
40 years these poor men had to implement their ideas and they get sabotaged all the time by socialists and leftists thats why this model isnt working to its full potential.
And Greece is the last communistic/capitalistic country i suppose and tsipras has put a veto to its reforms so that we will never join the rest of the western world and insted bring you all down with us?
Seriously what else am i going to witness in this thread as undisputed truth....
You got that right: the government intervention in the economy and the wrong political decisions (=bad management) are the root cause of all bubbles and crises! From borrowing too much money to pay huge armies of civil servants, to money printing (when borrowing doesn't work anymore) or subsidising inefficient industries, only to buy votes for future elections. Remember that no government knows better than people, what is good for people. And BTW, economics is a science, even if you don't believe it, even if it is based on a lot of empirical data. Apart from mathematics, all other sciences (eg physics, chemistry, etc) are based on empirical data or try to develop models able to explain the empirical data. Now back to Greece. Syriza is called anti-austerity party. This label hides the real ideological nature of this party. These 6 months since Tsipras took over, have not changed a bit the young radical left militant, who adhered to the communist party when he was 16. Tsipras lives only for "The Cause". Greece has become an European Venezuela, but without the power of the venezuelan oil. Syriza is a big admirer of the anti-capitalist agenda pushed by Hugo Chavez. Not surprising, both Maduro and Castro sent their congratulations: "We are about to break the chains of the international finances and IMF" When dealing with Tsipras and Varoufakis, EU made a big mistake. The same mistake they make when talking to Putin. They talk to them like they talk to normal, responsible people, ready to defend their priorities, but with no hidden agenda. They expect that when someone makes a promise, the promise is kept. Nobody expect lies told with a straight face, like those told by Putin when he denied the presence of the russian army in eastern Ukraine. What EU often forgets is that the greek government is made out of communists and radical leftists, with marxist beliefs, who have attended the leninist school of thought. The capitalist EU (even the democratic left) are their arch-enemies, therefore they feel it is alright to blackmail and deceive with no scrupuls. No surprise here about those frequent contacts between Tsipras and Putin, because these contacts serve "The Cause" All means are good to serve "The Cause", especially those means exploiting EU weaknesses. Respecting EU rules is the last thing Tsipras has in mind. What he wants is to bend those rules and use them for his own agenda. Last Sunday referendum is the perfect example for such rules manipulation. Even if the Greek constitution forbids (for very logical reasons) a referendum on fiscal matters, Syriza found a way around it. Tsipras did a great job in exploiting a certain ideological blindness which ignores the reality, by manipulating frustrations, fears, bursts of national pride, focusing them on the usual suspects: Schauble, Merkel, IMF. This looks exactly like the good old communist "class warfare"! Tsipras and Varoufakis became heroes by promoting a parallel reality, while destroying all the progress made, with huge sacrifices, by the greeks under the previous government (without even taking in account the recent disaster created by the bank closures) Syriza has now all it needs to implement a semi-authoritarian neo-Chavist regime. I just read that some canadian mining company had its license revoked and the workers took over the mine. In a discussion with that union leader, the energy minister stated that the european money will never be returned. This de-facto nationalization is inline with Syriza's mission to fight against the neo-liberalism and the capitalism itself. Syriza is trying now to re-invent the "communist wheel". As history has proven over and over again, these attempts have always failed! But who knows, maybe Syriza found a way! Therefore "Good luck" to all of you, Syriza cheerleaders and supporters, in implementing the "Brave New World" or the next 21st century utopia! "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
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