Thursday, 26 April 2012

Greece and the commoners' barter trade

about a couple of weeks ago, I came across the story of how a town called Volos in Greece facing the economic difficulties. they had invented a barter trade system; but in the modern form. the story is very inspiring  where the people, reinvent themselves.

in my country, there was a group which introduce gold as a 'quasi currency'. the group was sometimes threaten by the authority that what it was doing was against the law. yes, another 'against the law' warning by the authority. it was despite that the head of the government in the past had said the 'the era the government knows better is over'.

it is the real people who feels the real pain. and when these real people want to ease their pain in their 'legitimate' way, those big brothers intervened.

it is painful to be a commoner. you're holding a double edge sword.

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