So, yes - I can sympathise with the flood of news that's surely to continue coming about ordinary Greeks suffering. But blaming the "system", instead of the Greeks themselves, seems to me at least like blaming predatory lending for one's own poverty.

"Greeks" as in greek people not part of the elite had about as much say in what kind of debt their government took on as I have about which countries Germany sells its tanks to. It approaches zero. Strangely enough, I don't see any of those decision makers in any imminent danger of starvation or death by inavailability of medication.

Is it fair that Greece is at the mercy of creditors today? Well, about as unfair as the cheap credit Greece received for no reason other than their initially joining the Euro.

Which was still a wildly profitable business for the financial entities involved. The same entities now having their losses socialized for a change. How utterly surprising a development that was.

Markets are indifferent to such opinions - the trick is to learn how to navigate and make the most of the (admittedly) broken system we have.

In my opinion (which the markets are indeed indifferent to, as are their believers), the trick is not allowing markets and the broken system they represent to set the boundaries of reasonable discourse and appropriate action. Simply learning to "play the system" is a pretty conformist, if not reactionary proposal.

one's own poverty.

Given the distribution of wealth and opportunity, the one-sidedness of public policy and the indeed predatorious business practices prevalent in today's markets, I can only be mystified by the continued insistence on variants of "Every man is the architect of his own fortune".