Many Greeks deserve better -- not Greece...

Most, in fact.

Until recently, Greece was a country that was doing OK on borrowed money and little real income. A pretend country, Greece operated as a facsimile of a real country -- i.e. as if it actually had infrastructure, national consensus, a sense of national identity, communal values, etc...

Greece was very much a large corporation with its major shareholders (a score of business families) & Board (politicians and sundry, around 10,000 strong) which played at being a country...

Then the going got tough and the Greek government and Administration fell apart -- because it never was there for tough times in the first place. It was never, nor was intended ever to be, tough "enough".

The crisis blew the pretence sky-high.

The crisis also left 9.5 million odd Greeks in the middle of a wasteland.
These are the normal people, little people, who thought they lived in a normal country, who had their doubts, aspirations, hopes, etc...

• who saw their property prices rise and smiled at the easy way they made money out of gran's old piece of in the village;
• who did their best to avoid tax;
• some of whom also evaded tax (apart from the country's quasi owners: lawyers and doctors).

Now, the burden of paying for other peoples' money has fallen on those Greeks who cannot -- or know not how to avoid tax. So they pay more. Even retirees saw their pensions cut.

Greek politicians increased their income.

Really Greeks deserve better -- even if their official State does not.