BBC: Rubbish sold in Greece's hardtimes bazaar

[The Ripper]

Terrible. :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12204029


17 January 2011 Last updated at 07:18 GMT Help Greece's financial meltdown is making life hard for many people, as austerity measures bite.

Some Greeks are being forced to scour rubbish bins in order to survive.

They try to sell the proceeds at a weekly market run by the Garbage Collectors Association.

The BBC's Malcolm Brabant reports.


A glimpse of the future, for more than just Greece?

[lei.talk]

not unexpected for wage-slaves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery)
from the service-sector (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_(economics)) of the economy.

those who actually produce things (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sector_of_the_economy) fare better;
unindebted farmers and ranchers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_sector_of_the_economy) are self-sufficient.

one aprician can explain the master-plan:


http://i52.tinypic.com/2hnx5bm.png (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=253)

[Vasconcelos]

Greece keeps getting their ratings cut, poverty increasing, and the deficit isn't slowing down as much as planned, so.....what is the IMF doing anyway?

[Agrippa]

[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][SIZE="4"][FONT="Arial"]not unexpected for wage-slaves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery)
from the service-sector (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_(economics)) of the economy.

those who actually produce things (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sector_of_the_economy) fare better;
unindebted farmers and ranchers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_sector_of_the_economy) are self-sufficient.


Don't count on that, because they all need corporation products and can't be sure about the prices for their goods. Just think about fuel and fertilisers, even the seeds these days!

Only farmers with a very good preparation with oxens and their own self-bred seeds could count on their real self-sufficiency and in the end, in a time of a total breakdown, it would be clear that people would fight for food and even if you have a gun, you can never survive then on your own and protect all their goods all the time.

I don't think 99,5 percent of people would be prepared to survive a civilisation breakdown on their own - only together, in groups, this or that way, like it always was in the social and cultural species of Homo sapiens.

What happens in Greece now is ugly, yet you could find similar markets in many places of the world, even of Europe, not talking about the USA for example, which is much worse than Greece in certain respects still if being poor...

[Guapo]

I'd like to hear what Chimo Bayo has to say about this

[Turkophagos]

I'd like to hear what Chimo Bayo has to say about this


Highly dramatised. No doubt many want it, but we are not there yet.

Family ties are still strong in the South, the stronger members assist the weaker (unemployed) ones.

[Guapo]

Highly dramatised. No doubt many want it, but we are not there yet.

Family ties are still strong in the South, the stronger members assist the weaker (unemployed) ones.

What I thought, typical BBC rubbish.

[SwordoftheVistula]

Recycling on the increase! Great news for the environment :thumb001: