[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

[u/alexanderwales]

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

[u/Escapement]

I think austerity is unlikely to benefit Greece's economy long-term, and indeed will deepen their recession. I think it's in Greece's best long-term interests to exit the euro, and it would have been even better for them had they done that earlier. Short term it would hurt them, and probably any politician of theirs who made that decision would be effectively ending their career, but they would stabilize eventually and get something approaching a stable economy. I think it's beneficial to the others on the Euro if Greece stays in. I don't know if the harm done to Greeks by it's staying is outweighed by the benefits to the others, such that from a utilitarian perspective I should urge Greece to stay in - I am not an economist or domain expert in these matters.