Greece Surrenders Tangible Assets To Brussels

K-selection involves resource shortage:

Greece to Surrender Gold, Utilities and Real Estate in Exchange For Pieces of Paper Printed in Brussels It’s official: The Germans will not allow debt relief for Greece. Instead, Berlin wants to send in the repo man.

The untold story of the Greek “bailouts” is that it wasn’t a “bailout” — it was an auction of Greek assets. Real, tangible things with real, tangible value were seized in exchange for pieces of paper that guarantee Athens will be chained to Berlin and Brussels for the foreseeable future.

It’s your basic extortion racket. As one rather gloomy (but intriguing) analysis puts it:

The debt problem continues to erode the European Union from within – it is already impossible to hide, and Greek tragedy, for example, is growing.

Against this background, Germany seems to have a consensus about how to get rid of Greece with its debts and inefficient economy. The scheme of this… either to expel or allow suffering – to provoke the Maidan in Athens, and then to expel in any case.

So yet another nation’s gold will be quietly loaded onto a plane at a secret airstrip to be delivered to a secret Melonhead vault.

Greece would have been better off taking the hit early on, and rebuilding a functional, self-sufficient economy, like Iceland did. When the Apocalypse finally hit, its citizens would have been mentally prepared for shortage, and it still would have had this wealth in hand to blunt the blow.

Instead, its rabbity population chose to give away its remaining wealth in return for the promise of short term ease. Thing were always going to end badly, but with this, the rabbits of Greece have found a way to somehow take an Apocalypse and make it even worse.

As always, the r-strategy is about exploiting the short-term glut, while K-selection is about doing everything you can, as soon as you can, no matter how painful, in preparation for ultimately surviving later on.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because you never want your people to be the ones getting screwed as the Apocalypse closes in