Um, it's just research on starving hookers

Oh where did all my research funding go?

It is always tempting for a researcher to dabble
in his research matter. It is all the easier when
your subject matter is starving hookers.

The Hooker Market in Athens has gone
subterranean. It's not the underground
"offices," but where the profit margins have
gone. Into the red, so to speak.

One of the things that can really hit your
libido is the lack of money. Even though
regular sex is healthy, no country provides
guys with hooker money from Social
Services.

So, even hooking is off the hook.

This just required some research, for
verification purposes. One brave man
did this research and yet didn't
mix with his sample, i think.

checkit: zerohedge

Meanwhile In Greece, The Price Of A Prostitute Drops To €4 Per Hour 
Submitted by Tyler Durden
11/28/2015 10:00 -0400
By Keep Talking Greece
Six years of crippling financial crisis have sent Greek students to the streets. However, not for anti-austerity protests but for sex. They allegedly “sell it very cheap,” for the price of “a cheese pie or a sandwich,” thus “offering the lowest prices of the industry across the Continent.” “Some women just do it for a cheese pie or a sandwich they need to eat because they are hungry,” Gregory Lazos, professor of sociology at Panteion University in Athens told The Times and spoke about the results of a study he conducted. Lazos conducted the study among 400 women working on the streets. The study has lasted 3 years. Many of these women were students. They sell sex for a piece of bread – so to say – “in order to eat or cover basic needs and extra expenses as they have no money,” The Times and Lazos on The Times claim. “80% of prostitutes in Greece are Greek women aged 17 to 20”. The price for sex has dramatically decreased from €50 euro for 60 minutes down to “€2 for half an hour.“ “From the 18,500 prostitutes who work mainly in the streets throughout the country, since most brothels operated without a license, the majority now are desperate Greeks.” As KTG has only partial access to The Times due to the pay wall and picked up some additional information from Greek media that translated the article, it is not very clear when exactly the study has been conducted, its methodology and other scientific tools indicating “age”, “region” and other data. Neither did KTG manage to find out the percentage of students among the 400 case of women street workers. A percentage expected to be high enough to justify the article’s title. Gregory Lazos claimed further that before the economic crisis “there was not prostitution tendency among Greek women.” He stressed that “the phenomenon seems to grow at a steady and consistent pace.” Before the crisis the majority of prostitutes were women from Eastern Europe. So, The Times and Gregory Lazos lived happily ever after, and the Greek women that used to be little Saints but now sell it and do it on the streets have finally something to eat. Not even a souvlaki, though. It costs €2.00 – €2.20 and has 23% Value Added Tax for having salt and spices on it. A small cheese pie can be bought for €1 – €1.20. So there is one euro left to cover basic needs and extra expenses… Now some Greeks wonder, why all the Greek films of the 50’s the 60? and the early 70’s were featuring Greek women as prostitutes with the most famous one being Ilia (Melina Merkouri) in Never on Sunday. And some Greeks of the usual mean Greek category reckon all the fine young ladies in the noble bars and restaurants of certain high-class suburbs of Athens before the crisis… Ops! They were “escorts”. – And because they were so many, the brothels emptied and did not renew their licenses – Just kidding! PS At least in the sex sector Greece seems have developed into a super competitive country I wonder, how IMF’s Lagarde would comment on this and if she would support the sector’s booming withe both her thumbs up.

In a state of suspended Gamification

There can be no other words for these past 5 years, in Greece.
Not even the brief Syriza spring of 2015 (Jan to July),has
changed the fact that Greece is a neo-liberal Lab of Goebbels.

Greeks are the Gerbils and the Troika are the Goebbels.

It has been said that the once Fin Min Varoufakis was an
expert in Game Theory. Actually, he rejected Game Theory
as being limited, but nevertheless he had to be an expert
in order to see that it's trash. Nevertheless, he was accused
of trying to Game the Troika.

Other opinions, mostly in Greece, see his "defense of the realm"
as little more than theatre, with the benefit to Varoufakis of
world fame. Perhaps it's true.

However, the fact remains, if you translate/calque the words
Game Theory and Gamification (noun for using Game Theory)
you get , in Greek
Fuck Theory and Fuckification.

If you see the pic above, you have the Greek in his armchair
(or suspended above it) being forced to watch the downfall
of his little country (which he viewed as the centre of the universe
now that it was in the EU),  one bankruptcy
at a time. The media, now happy that Syriza is playing the
 Gamification, are fully trying to use any euphemism in order
to keep Greeks from realising what is going on, on a daily
basis, to their country, so that they'll still buy shit from the
advertisers.

 Gamification

e.g. 1
Last week, thanks to a new Syriza law, foreign vulture funds
were able to pay (the Troika) whatever they wanted for the
4 big Greek banks, which were il-liquid anyway. Now,
coupled with the Bilder-born EU-enforced bank law,
foreign banks can now legally rip off whatever Greek
savings they want to without so much as an excuse.

Gamification 

e.g. 2

Thanks to a recorded session between Varoufakis and 

interlocutors about the future of Greece (held in May/June 

of 2015?) we found out that the keys to the Greek 

Treasury were held by the Troika. So, any tax money

(read: idiot tax) were taken directly by the Troika. So 

Varoufakis (even though he never told the public) was a 

Fin Min with no Fin. Not even a fin (i.e. 5 bucks).

 Gamification

e.g. more to come