Nah, at least for Italy i can safely say that our economy (or better, our politic class) was failing even before that. Our problems aren't caused by this restriction.
Yeah, of course this restriction is not helping anyone. But our troubles are not caused by that

That just looks like a bad transaction. I'm a bit surprised that it would get relayed or stored in blockchain.info's memory pool. It shouldn't ever confirm.

http://blockchain.info/tx-index/52591276

I only looked at the first one but it is one giant "spammy" transaction (per low priority rules) which is 22KB and has a fee of 0.005 BTC.  The min mandatory fee for low priority transactions is 0.0005 BTC per kb.  For this tx that would require 0.011 BTC so the tx is non-compliant and many nodes will simply drop it.

Even with a 0.011 fee how long it takes to be confirmed depends on if a miner wants to include it in a block.  Most miners are just going to pass on including junk like this.  22KB with 600? outputs is enough to increase the risk of getting an orphan.   So say it increases propagation delay by 1%.   So I can collect get 25 BTC or include your tx and get 25.01 BTC but 1% of the time I lose the entire block.  In the long run I earn more by not including your tx.  If I were running a pool I wouldn't include it ... ever.

I believe dominance should be determined by how independent the employees are - having transferable skills, not being dependent on a single job, being able to ask for increased job compensation without fear of being laid off, and if they are laid off, being able to find another job or resort to starting a business themselves - and that it should NOT be determined by how much power and force the employee can exhert over the employer, either through threats of union strikes, or legal controls and regulations.
I feel completely comfortable with my employees working on side projects, learning new things, and ask them to update their resumes at least once a year with whatever new skills and tasks they have picked up recently. I WANT them to feel like they don't depend on me, because them not feeling tied to me and their job actually keeps us on friendlier, more open, and more even terms, and keeps the business more productive and innovative. If my employees were in a union, or had some sort of control over keeping their job against my will, the work environment would have been a lot more stressful, with "me vs you" tensions rising often.

That seems like a lot to allocate to a single, high risk investment. As long as that on any given day you can say to yourself, "tomorrow, the only thing left of Bitcoin may be my wallet.dat" and feel comfortable. Don't kid yourself, there is probability, not insignificant, that it could happen (likely it would leave the network but no way to exchange to and from BTC, IMHO).

If you could find 15-20 other investments not related to bitcoin but just as risky, you would (might) have less chance of total ruin. Not as much fun, but let's you invest in the next *coin if this one doesn't work out.

I'm already using that.

I may have improved the situation by decreasing the maximum amount of memory that php-fpm and mysql can use.

WoW bitcoin is becoming like the real world, let me guess anzy is from china, where ideas are to steal others. I hope the mods remove this copy of a stupid idea, which made it even dumber.

200,000 sq ft house?  Are those even a thing?

And employees are free to leave and find a job elsewhere. The job isn't the employee's, it's given to them by the business owners.

The employee can decide to decline a wage decrease, and the owners will just fire them. Especially if the business doesn't make enough money to afford them any more. The power is still will the one who owns the business, and gives the jobs.

no, this is against the RFC