What a strange thing for a Greek to read on hacker news. Being in Athens I must say the riots have certainly subsided by now and a semblance of normality is back on the streets, at least until the holidays are out. Other than that, the analysis was pretty good if simplified to fit the size of the article. One thing that does not come out is that the youth is very leftist, very much against privatization and market solutions, perhaps due to the horible way this has gone in the past. Although I personally would hope for a libertarian direction, I am in a very tiny sliver of the population. In all honesty, between state ownership and a capitalism beholden to a small number of powerful families, I am not sure what is worse.

It's hard to tell if greece is a 'last of the mohicans' kind of country where the social fabric is still strong and therefore a lot of 'law and order' policies where the govt cracks down on the people are less tolerated, or if it is a first of a new phase of unrest all over europe and the world. Time will tell I guess.