Konstantinos Doumpenidis
Visual Artist and Creative Director
Live and work in Athens, Greece
Creative Director of Juicer Studio
Part of Esto Association
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November, 2015
Ever since the beginning of the Eurozone crisis, all countries that were subjected into rescue programs were
forced to proceed into privatization of goods and services in exchange of receiving loans from the troika.
Especially in the case of Portugal and Greece, big companies and investors can buy cheap, aiming for big
profits. In Greece, the bestowal of public wealth to multinational corporations had progressed long before the
crisis. Such a case is that of Canadian Eldorado Gold company which through Ellinikos Xrysos A.E. has been
mining gold in the area of Skouries, Stratoni & Olympiada.
Mining and metal processing is a form of heavy industry that entails many dangers, such as non-reversible
environmental damage, pollution of the atmosphere, water and soil causing versatile consequences to hu-
man health and quality of life.
Gold is a market value, an investment property. Its price is shifting daily according to the law of supply and
demand. Due to the time difference between markets the gold index is constantly moving, determining trans-
actions.
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