The long term social effects of the crisis on the individual are discussed here.

(I received direct permission to reblog all of these posts from the period of the crisis.)

James Pilant

It is important now more than ever that we discover ways of living for less. Primarily due to the scarcity of money in Ireland at the moment, and secondarily because we must do everything in our power to pay less tax to a government which is stealing from us. As things stand at the present we are tied by law into a social contract which demands that we pay our taxes to the state; taxes which enable this government to overpay its members whilst en … Read More

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