Greek Humour or Greek Tragdedy?
Kicking someone when they are down is cruel. Mocking them in that situation is slightly better. What follows is neither, even though it is about Greece and the mess it is in. One guy started an online campaign to collect money to pay a teeny, tiny fraction of Greece’s debt! It didn’t collect much. I could have told him that: the Internet only donates to shady Nigerian scams! Greece’s GDP is $250 billion; Apple alone has $280 billion in cash . Hence the jokes about Apple buying Greece and renaming things to iAcropolis and iOlives. It could then be the company sponsored vacation spot for Apple employees, they joke: Greece would be for geeks! Greece’s stock exchanges recently reopened after being closed for 5 weeks and the banking stocks crashed because nobody has any faith in them anymore. But how little faith is best articulated by a comparison: Uber, the cab ride sharing company, alone is worth over 5 times more than all of Greece’s listed banks put together ! The l...