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prostheticfourhead · 3421 days ago · link · · parent · post: Tsipras folds, Greek state assets go into privatization fund
>vote to support themselves in the long-run at the cost of their short-run I wonder what the average Oxi voter imagined would happen if Greece left the euro, I can't imagine they would have thought that things would increase in the short-term.
user-inactivated · 3421 days ago · link ·
They were voting against austerity, which cost them pension and social welfare benefits. Many who were voting against austerity likely also expected that their economy was being held back by austerity measures and wanted growth. They were voting to get growth and benefits.