• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Man, if I still lived in an EU country and the government pulled this shit I’d be making the most of that sweet freedom-of-movement. Way to drive all the skills out of your economy.

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      5 months ago

      That’s exactly what tens if not hundreds of thousands of young Greeks have done in the last 15 years.

      Greece has a brain drain problem. This ridiculous measure is actually sold by the government as an attempt to address the shortage of certain skilled worker categories. By … incentivizing the few that are left to pack up and leave. In practice, it’s just class warfare.

      The Greek ruling class is a bunch of grifters, landlords, smugglers and gangsters (always have been, since 1830) and they are basically betting on a “recovery” based on cheap labour.

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      5 months ago

      Greece has some port big problems financially that are not going away any time soon. It needs change, it needs exports