Forget who is lazy or not, people are people.  Their only issue is where they live, the opportunities available and this is limited by their government's oppressive debt.  If your business is taxed to death, if it's too hard (red tape) to run a business and most small businesses fail, then you have such a disadvantage, you can't overcome it.

Question is, who do you want to make feel the pain the most?  The Greeks?  or the wealthy banks that are in bed with the wealthy countries?  

All the debt won't be forgiven, but if there were enough pressure release, I'm sure Greece could get itself off the ground.  And if the politicians were smart, they'd get rid of all the red tape small businesses have to go though, and they would have a renaissance.

The "original German" would teach them how to work more efficiently

Hint: Ferrari was always a great Formula 1 car. Italians are also a Mediterranean nation. Ferrari had problems (10 years without world championship) until Niki Lauda arrived and turned them around. He leaves and soon-after they went nowhere. 15 years without the world championship in, Michael Schumacher arrived and turned them around in the most spectacular way. He leaves and soon-after Ferrari slumps yet again. Sebastian Vettel arrived and is already turning them around. (only this time he competes against Mercedes

Kidding aside, it seems to me you have your conclusion and than construct a premise to support it, a very clever premise granted, but it might lead to a circular argument which is not my forte. While Tante is correct, "people are people" there's nothing wrong in stating believing that some nations are, in average, naturally better in certain activities than the others, like Kenyan runners being better in marathon than Norwegians while you'd be hard pressed to prove that Norwegians are not better sailors than Kenyans.

This is not, I hope you will grant me that, a stereotype, but acknowledgement of the fact that the climate, geography, history makes those differences ..

bitcoin on fire? almost 250$

The joys of fatherhood...

https://twitter.com/TaoOfSatoshi/status/614844803851882498?s=09

I'm sorry, Sub-Ether, but those statistics mean nothing to me.  Just because an average Mexican spends 60 hours a week digging ditches doesn't mean anything.  Mexico's education system is beyond broken.  If you want decent grades, in most places, you have to pay your teacher a bribe.  Bribery is the main way to earn money.  Forgive me, but Mexico is messed up.  The worst thing is they actually have a peasant mentality.  Keeping them uneducated keeps that system in tact.  Please don't get me wrong, I'm talking about their society, not individual Mexicans.  And their society has a TON of great things, like family values, hard working.  But it goes back to being more productive by working smarter not harder nor easier but longer.

It comes with education, and education is not valued in all societies.  Mostly in societies where the "haves" want to keep control.  


Edit:  I have lived with Mexican and Mexican American people all my life.  Until adulthood, my neighborhood was over 50% Mexican-American.  Since childhood, I couldn't understand why Mexico wasn't the richest country in the world.  It was so green!  So beautiful, they even have rich deposits of oil!  Why?

The answer is deeply engrained corruption which is possibly impossible to excise.  And it deeply depresses me.

In the graph Sub-Ether posted (I removed to save same space here) Greece is near the top and German near the bottom and this is his (?) point. Firstly allow me to state I am not making an argument for the Germans or against the Greeks, I just find the statistical argument (I used the same) funny.

Take this set of data: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=FTPTC_D

"You see the OECD figures do not compare like for like. They lump part-time and full time employees together without any adjustment so countries with a larger percentage of part-time employees will tend to have fewer average hours to show for it. As this OECD table will show you, part-time employment is very rare in Greece. To take the example most likely to raise eyebrows, 22% of German workers worked part-time in 2008, against 8% in Greece.The OECD also lumps together female and male employees, so any country which manages to get more women into the workforce also has fewer hours worked to show for it because women typically worker fewer hours. For background, only 56% of Greek working age women were economically active in 2008, against 71% of German working age women source: http://bit.ly/1fRYa0t. Account for that, and for all the other ways in which the two labour forces differ, and, well, it gets complicated."

The rest, a perfect example of making someone's point, is here: http://lolgreece.blogspot.com/2012/06/exploding-myth-of-exploding-myth-of.html

But, yet again, Tante was correct. Corruption (in Mexico where I used to live or in Greece I know quite well) is the main source of these, and many other, countries misery. And how the people cope? They go to "work" and just sit there. In certain poorer countries, where the low wages is a real problem, there's an expression, roughly translated as "I can always work less than you pay me."

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Atm run atm run!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33300543
'Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a Greek request to extend a bailout programme beyond 30 June.'

Edit: one third of ATM's ran dry today, and are being replenished, wonder how long that will last, where's helicopter Ben when you need him.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/27/eurozone-greece-banks-idUSL5N0ZD0Q820150627

My solution is a re-re-release of Greekcoin, but this time state backed with a Yanis Yanis blessing  
(After all the Cameroon gov. is going to start the first alt coin called trest, although its not minable, forks predicted)

Greece - Explained.

https://twitter.com/alepouda/status/614451083004485634