Reply #9: Greek riots [View All]

[reggie the dog]

Greek riots are reported here in France as being the result of a generation of people age 30 to 15 who have or are doing university studies, up to MA and PHD levels but who often work for 700 euro a month if they stay in Greece. Young people have trouble getting jobs or jobs that pay ok. For people not going to the university they often live on the same 700 euros a month. This is pissing off people, they live less well than their parents, they cannot move out into their own housing, they seldom have money to go on holiday, they are fed up and they have a shitty corrupt right wing governemnt so they are rioting. There are many many paralles I see with France in this aspect, but we who do studies often get 1800 euro a month after five years of work, having started at 1200. it is true some of us stagnate at 1200 euro a month others who get minimum wage get about 1000 a month, this is all after taxes. At any rate in France our money also goes farther because of our nationalized health and university systems (tuitiion at universities is in the 4, yes four, to 200 euro per year range based on income level. So in France even though we have problems with high yough unemployment and we live less well than our parents, our less well is still better off than that of Greece, but soon it will be really shitty here in France if nothing changes. I cannot imagine this is only a Greek or French problem.