Life is about the incentive. For instance:
Philkeram Johnson declared bankruptcy in 2011. VIO.ME’s 70 employees stopped getting paychecks the same year. But they still came to work and continued making glue and tile-cleaning products. For a time, they also received unemployment checks, Mokas says.
“Unemployment benefits finished last September,” he says. “We said, ‘what can we do now? Stay only here and be guards here? We have to eat, we have to do something.’ Because we want to have work.”
Indeed. Benefits ended some time ago and so now they wonder, “What can we do now?”
Don’t get me wrong, I wish the Greek workers luck. But I wonder why they didn’t look for this life sooner.