Pythagoras himself must arise from time to time and help people up. Alive and well, far the heck away from Greece, which is clearly mad, and safe in a safe place, commenting about how to fix it, from a far off paradise in the distant future known as 2015:
 
Solutions to the Greek crisis are the negative space at the heart of the Greek crisis. There are certain taboos which cannot be discussed by proper donation-seeking politicians, and embedded within these taboos, are a multitude of easy solutions for the Greek financial crisis, laid out below.
 
In light of these solutions, a more full perspective becomes clear.
 
These solutions amplify the free will of all Europe, and the whole world affected by what goes on there, as it chooses its basic path – inclusiveness and prosperity, or failure and fractured sovereignty.
 

Why Does This Matter?

Sovereignty flows out of the people of the world organically, the idea that someone other than yourself might have rights worth protecting creates this sovereignty – whom do we trust with our sovereignty? To what institutions does our sovereignty flow? By what manner do we trust and unite together to protect all of our rights?

Sovereignty is shared by the nations of the world including Greece, as well as the UN, NATO, international law, and even the medical system, as well as international travel and shipping. All of these are institutions people trust to get things done and take care of us. We pay into these systems with our taxes, our purchases, our deposits, and our trust – our sovereignty.

Sovereignty is also starting to flow to operations like the Golden Dawn – a neofascist movement in Greece with a logo just like the swastika, saying things just like the Nazis used to – very startling and scary to look at the Golden Dawn. Fighting fascism is at the heart of why the Greek crisis is relevant.

The Greek crisis is about sovereignty – the questions about sovereignty we aren’t asking frames the debate – but let’s ask some of those questions anyway.

Why wouldn’t each of the following solution ideas fix the Greek crisis?

1. Old-fashioned JP Morgan Chase-style bailout: having received billions, Chase alone represents what the Fed can do- just literally print money and hand it over as a no-interest loan. Digitally create the cash and give it to Greece, the same as any other bank got it, plus Detroit (these bailouts actually made a cash profit for taxpayers, as crazy as this sounds).

2. Tax the church, the Vatican, and all religious institutions not paying taxes. By this count, in the USA it’s a $71 billion annual subsidy to churches, by not taxing them. In Greece, it could be 20-50% this figure – quite an enormous chunk of change, for Greece right now in this situation. The Vatican’s bloated sovereignty is choking out the nation of Greece from vital sustenance of sovereignty, trust in collective human authority. Note: I’m going to be doing a lot of research on the history of the movement attempting to tax churches.

3. Legalize, regulate, and tax hemp. Treating hemp as a medicine (PSA: Know someone with cancer? 99% effective cures, hot off the grill) is vital to understanding the basics of this struggle. The pharmaceutical industry would contract, and the fetal (or perhaps more specifically, cryogenically frozen) hemp industry is unable to defend itself, whereas big pharma has an army of lobbyists, today, tomorrow, and next week, working hard to make sure all of this stays taboo.

4. Reparations of Italy and Germany to Greece, for their Axis Alliance. This risks re-opening old wounds, but it brings history into the conversation in a big way. Banks still hoard Nazi wealth, as they deny Greek pensioners their hard-earned life savings. Many wounds from this epically mortal conflagration remain open, requiring attention and effort.

5. Iceland-style reboot: The “Political Aftermath” section is perhaps the climax, but this whole Wikipedia article thankfully outlines what happened in Iceland to restore trust in the government, so that national sovereignty could resume. The same can happen in Greece, and if it does, don’t expect it to be covered in the mainstream media!

6. Energy policy: Greece heavily relies on fossil fuels, and though they have the second most solar in Europe, they’re a distant second behind Germany, who carries significant leverage for that.

One dualistic tug-of-war in this picture is the percent of ownership (now around 25%) of the “public” Greek electric monopoly, which supplies Greece with dirty, semi-reliable electricity from the wall – Greek taxpayers, to whom the public-founded and owned electric utility owes a debt of sovereignty, which the privatizers will drop in the garbage can without changing the price, privatizing profit, and making risk public. Theft like that is never good for an economy.

However, apparently, and surprisingly, “The PPC has committed to buying renewable-source energy from independent producers at five times its selling rate until 2034.” [source] This is my jaw dropped, and I am skeptical. But if true it would mean that the economy is primed for solar in Greece, as well as wind. Solar stands out though, since it is so cheap on a small scale, also scaling up well and cost effectively.

The main economic benefit with solar and wind is that they allow long term fixed prices for electricity, and longer-term budgeting for economic participants.

Clearly, there is a force keeping electricity storage out of the question in Greece, and instead of addressing the intricately complex and rewarding economic politics of whose roof gets the solar, their energy economy is riding the price of oil with a broken suspension. Clean electricity storage, alongside clean electricity generation, is like a bag of mortar next to a pile of bricks. To built the structure, you will need both!

Dirty-fighting dirty energy monopolists will argue electricity storage is unnecessary, because, well, we store electricity in unburnt fuel! And this is how they always try to corner renewable energy visionaries, who win, because electricity storage is as vital as electricity generation itself! This is at the heart of the Greek crisis as much as any polical-financial bickering.

These are heavyweight solutions to a heavyweight problem. Any one of these solutions would truly make a difference, and if implemented properly, would solve the entire Greek crisis. Until then, enjoy all the hollow, solution-less rhetoric, empty chin-scratching and meaningless political arm wrestling. Either way, people have free will, and they’ll make excuses either way, it’s all a matter of options, and awareness of options.

I hope this helps!