Perhaps a depleted country – one that has sold off all of its assets, and whose bright young people have emigrated – might finally get debt forgiveness; perhaps, having shriveled into a middle-income economy, Greece might finally be able to get assistance from the World Bank. All of this might happen in the next decade, or perhaps in the decade after that.
很难建议希腊人民在7月5日怎样投票。没有一个方案——批准或拒绝三驾马车的条件——是容易的，并且两个方案都含有巨大的风险。投赞成票意味着几乎看不到头的萧条。也许等到国家被榨干——卖掉它的所有资产，有才华的年轻人都移民国外——才能得到最终的债务豁免；也许倒退回中等收入经济的希腊才能够最终得到世界银行的援助。所有这些都有可能在未来十年发生，也有可能在十年后的十年发生。