Quote from Ghost of Cutten:
Sorry am I missing something here? From what I can see, the Greek government took other people's money, promised to pay it back, and then went on an insane spending spree they couldn't afford, year after year. If you were the lender and some individual was the deadbeat, you'd be hopping mad.
Also, since when has repaying money that you *owe to other people* been serfdom? Not repaying it is fraud, negligence, and theft. That is real slavery, since you took the yield of other peoples' labour, under false pretences, and then squandered it without their consent. The savers who lent that money worked hard to accumulate it, they are the ones who are being wronged, not the morons who pissed it away.
Also this has nothing to do with the monetary system. It would be exactly the same if we were in a barter system and Greek borrowed 1 million cows, promised to return 1.5 million in a few years, and then ate them all at lavish banquets. Back in antiquity, if the Greeks had borrowed some gold from the Romans then not paid it back, they would have been invaded, conquered, thrown in debtors prison, and their populace sold into slavery to repay. Right now all they have to do is default and they get off scot free - no court can jail a single Greek politician, official, or voter for not paying.
In short, these arseholes have fuck all to complain about. Any other debtor in the world or throughout history gets treated far worse than a sovereign debtor. So spare me the pathetic, whining pity party.