That's a very well thought out insight you posted.
Absolutely correct abt tourism too and those countries will be reeling pretty soon as much as anywhere else.
As for the article, deep down (and this is based on my observations whilst working in Europe), most of Europe has never taken the southerners as truly Europeans, prejudices runs deep and perhaps this might explain some of the attitudes we see written.
Spain is gonna need some help otherwise things will start to cascade, I think the rest knows it too and somehow that will push them to come up with a rescue package of sorts for the whole EU.
The funny thing in Europe is that northerns see southerns as second class europeans and easterns as third class ones.
Southerns see northerns as more productive but less smart and easterns as second class europeans.
Easterns see northerns as annoying fathers who just pay the bills and southerns as the lazy uncle who doesnt give a fvck about the rules yet still spends most of the money.
Experiences > theories. Years ago WDW was posting about how hard it was to get women and that he was ugly lol. But now his posts are a lot more “do, or get tf out of the way”. Noting this change over time is useful because you can see what exactly makes someone change a certain way, and why. Character development is always an interesting phenomenon. I’d say he’s better off now than he was back then. Hence, further along.
Never said that I'm ugly, just average with the malus of a crappy hairline (think of bruce willis in hudson hawk), thankfully I'm a borderline *******, muscular and wealthy and this gets me enough women even tough not as fast as I would like to.
Clearly right given my look I hardly could slay online, badoo and tinder when I bothered to use them got me nothing is any western european country...anything less than a chad is off there.
I would say character is just a part, a huge role is played from libido and priorities...trust me if your libido decreases in your 30s and you are obessesed about that loft in that cool building, women become a side dish unworthy of too much time and toughts.
Also I noticed that the more women I banged the less I had that deep desire to have them, guess part of that was ego too and Im ashamed to say it but I couldnt keep my ego in check till my mid 20s.
Thanks for the link. Oddly, it's the first time I'd heard the expression 'frugal four' which is so fitting. As you said (perhaps in another thread) these problems are really nothing new, dating back at the very least the disastrous formation of the Euro Zone (which the British wisely avoided). What is interesting and rather frightening is that this crisis seems to have disproportionately hit the weaker (although nonetheless financially significant) members of the Zone, esp. Spain and Italy. If their was a disorderly exit (and there is no such thing as an orderly one) from the Zone, it would have tremendous financial consequences. So we are likely to see yet more financial instability, financial contagion on top of viral contagion. All the while Frau Merkel will no doubt continue to say, not my problem - it is just the other end of the boat that is sinking.
The european countries are so interconnected that even a medium sized economy like Spain could crush the whole union if their system defaulted, let alone Italy or France.
People think Greece was not a big deal back then but despite being a very small economy it created an enormous amount of problems back then, plenty of people lost their sleep.
Also dont forget that Russia and China are salivating while looking at it, this fact involves the Us even more in the outcome.
Plus there is the currency issue, if the eurozone gets broken and we get back to national currencies, southerns will lose plenty of purchasing power while northerns will fvck up their opportunities for exports given how their national currencies would grow in value...Germany basically lives by export (google trade balance for germany) therefore they will seriously fvck up their economy with a stronger national currency.
Everyone has to lose there.