I am from Poland and I do not know if Poland is a rich country today. But the difference between 1983 (the time of my childhood), when there was only vinegar on the shelves in stores, and 2024 is certainly unbelievable. We now have good roads, good services, good public transport, not perfect but still good medical care, theaters, concerts, safety on the streets, stores full of everything, etc. It is really hard to believe that once I stood in line at the store for two days to buy meat, which was rationed on ration cards anyway. It is impossible to describe.
Depends what we understand as rich. When you compare it only to Europe, then Poland is in the richer half of the continent, but only states that Europeans call rich, are Scandinavian and Benelux states. But when you compare Poland to entire World, then yeah, you can even say that Poland is very rich. I think people in Poland don't consider themself rich, because Poland borders even richer states like Germany. Denmark and Sweden. Hard to be relaxed if your neirghbour is doing better than you :p
I like that no one from Poland comments on those "Poland success story" clips, but instead it's more like, "Are we on Germany's level yet? No? Then shut up and let me eat my pierogi."
I'm polish and I will tell you - it's true. There is nothing really to be happy about yet. What I do not understand is americans complaining on their country. They live in pretty much the safest and richest country with the most stable economy and yet, they claim things are sh*tty. That makes no sense.
@@martinpiekarski1512 Life for the average American is nothing great. Bad work culture, mass lay-offs and very competitive job-market, low purchasing power, no healthcare, toxic food, infrastructure is falling apart, lots of crime and violence in the cities. There's a reason why USA is called a third world country with a Gucci-belt.
@@martinpiekarski1512 POLAND has being doing good financially but due to you guys sharing a border with russia do you guys feel threatned by NATO's escalation of war with russia (I am from INDIA), NATO is conducting a joint exercise on polish soil with 5,000 NATO troops which might lead to escalation why don't you guys become a russian ally state like belarus because you guys share borders with much stronger country with stronger I don't call poland weak but I think you probably also know that the russian missile technolgy is second to none also they advaced air defence system like s-400,s-500 also they have 6000 nuke and 14,000 tanks with su-35,su-27,mig-29,su-30sm some su-57 fighter jet those Numbers can absolutely decimate poland rather being in alliance with USA, russia is much better and safer
@@martinpiekarski1512 the US "safest"? Dude, their national sport is shooting at each other. Look at literally any violent crime rate and it's like 3-5 times worse in the US than in Poland. Like, Baltimore has similar population to Kraków and it has more murders each year than entire Poland, a country of 38 million. I personally know Americans that moved to Poland and are amazed that they can just, you know, walk the street and are not afraid of getting shot. Try living abroad for some time and you will realise that it's actually Poles that don't know how nice Poland is and how massively it developed in the recent decades. I know that complaining is the national sport in Poland, but try looking at some objective data and you'll realise that these videos are right - and that Americans are actually also right in complaining.
Immigration is ‘increasingly unpopular’ in UK? How about: “Third world immigration is a core failure of the UK political class and a primary distinction between Poland and the UK”?
The only immigrants you see in London atm are Africans and south east Asians. Good luck building a solid work force. Unless you want 200.000 Uber drivers.
We have plenty of migrants from central Asia and Caucasus mountains, not UK levels but definitely plenty of migration. What does significantly differ in Poland is the inequality levels. An advantage of communism was starting with fairly low inequality and We lucked out big time during the 90s and governments managed to secure good loans to ease the shock therapy and create decent law system that prevented oligarchisation (we probably did almost the best, Czechs only did solve it better as far as I know).
As a Brit, I say good on Poland. I've lived with someone who is Polish and he is one of my best friends. Good food, strong culture and a sense of general honour which we don't seem to have anymore in urban centres of the UK.
@@cecejones2883 Really? All my English friends who visited Poland many times, say it's foodies paradise. I tried potato pancake covered with beef (or pork) stew served with seleriac remulade instead of coleslaw - one of the best things I ever had.
I am Slovak citizen, but I live in the UK for 5 years. I see the country is not in a good condition, almost everything is in decline, only immigration, crime and poverty is growing. I can't really imagine to raise the family here. I hope I will be able to move to Poland or Czechia in a next few years. Salaries are maybe still not on that level as it is in the UK, but these countries are more family friendly, safer, cleaner and I feel I can fit better there with my background and mentality than as it is in the UK. England is still good country in a certain way, but problems are growing and it is hard and too expensive to live a decent life here. Poles deserves what they have, they had difficult history and were hit hardly by Nazis and Russians, but I believe they will be most succesful Slavic and Eastern European country and will show their full potencial in the future. But I wish they will stay down to earth and humble.
Poland is not "Insanely Rich". It is not rich at all. Yes GDP is growing, yes streets look nice and clean, yes it is safe, because unemployment is low. What you don't see is that majority of people work for less than 1 Thousand Pounds a month (median salary is 4600 PLN nett a month, while NMW is about 3600), while a lot of products cost same as in UK. You want to buy a bicycle, fridge, tv, computer etc, it costs same as in UK. Vodka and cigarettes are cheaper, food is about 20-30% cheaper than in UK. What you don't see is that mortgages in Poland are less customer friendly than in UK. I did some research and let's say I mortgage 100k GBP in UK and in Poland. In UK over 30 years I'll pay off maybe 180% of borrowed amount, while in Poland I will pay off 230% of the amount. People pay mortgage over 10 years and they own bank much more than when they borrowed. What you don't see is renting flat in Poland is nearly as expensive as renting one in UK and to buy 1 bedroom flat in Poland in bigger city is a cost of around 100k GBP. Imagine buying it off less than 1k GBP a month. What you don't see is that cars on Polish streets look older than in UK. People buy 8 years old car with 100k miles on the clock and are happy, because it's "nearly new". 90% of people in Poland have no savings at all and they live pay check to pay check. What looks like wealth is bought with loans or money from parents or inherited. What you don't see is poverty is on a rise, due to raising costs of energy and other costs that are consequence of high energy prices. What you don't see is that us Poles are taught to survive well in poor conditions. What you hear on yt is that Poles are going back to Poland, what you don't hear is after some time in Poland some of them want to come back to UK, because they believed in "economic miracle" in Poland, but truth is you won't feed your family with growing GDP. What you don't see is that country is politically divided like USA, with two main parties (pis and po), who are equally bad, but they managed to antagonise the society. Poland is getting better not thanks to politicians, but despite them. Yes, it's much better than it was 20 years ago, yes people earn better than they used to, and some earn better then they would in UK, but it's not majority and it is very far from "Insanely Rich". It's just propaganda.
Poland has had more people returning than leaving for years now. But it’s not because the country is more developed and workers are returning to continue their careers in Poland, like the video and your comment suggested. The main reason is that Poles who left to North America and Western Europe 20-30 years ago are nearing retirement age. They made their money in the West, have investments and pensions, and are coming back to retire closer to family. The fact that retirement benefits paid in Pounds, Euros, or Dollars can buy twice what they can in the West definitely helps, too. Both my parents and 3 out of 5 uncles/aunts left Poland in the 90s. Today only one of these people is still abroad.
yes people are getting ahead of themselves with the "projected" gdp figures when in reality as gdp increases and wages rise there's a cascading effect of multiple factors which slows gdp growth down. Thanks for your perspective, I haven't been sure what to make of this hype.
@@Lukasz-nw2pb You are right about people returning to PL to retire, but a lot of people return to work in PL. A lot of them are in their 30s, 40s and 50s, they miss their family and friends, they earned enough to build a house or buy a flat and they will continue their career in Poland.
I left UK in 93 for Poland, I live in Warsaw, the change over the years has been amazing to see, I look back on these years, how the country has developed along with its people, they have plenty to be proud about ❤
That is so nice to hear over the years I have seen polish people leaving Ireland to go home because it was getting better, onwards and upwards for Poland ❤❤
Lots of USA tech companies are setting up shop in Poland due to high English speaking ability, high education and low cost of wages relative to the USA.
Exactly, the USA is subsidising poland, now why would the USA do that other than business purpose, polands relationship with the US, has reach a new level
Nonsense, for a start from next year the Polish minimal national wage will overtake the USA. As for English speaking I don't think so and have lived here for 30 years. I put a post on a Polish fakebook group in english as there is a translation feature. It was immediately jumped on and was told I had to write in Polish as not everbody has to know english and have some respect. When I checked the posters profile it was a Pole living in the UK, one of the majority of the 1.2million who after more than 10 years living there have not bothered to learn a word of the native language. I have worked with Poles all over europe and very few of them bother to learn the language of the host country. Poland rising GDP is all borrowed money that is being spent on US weapons for a threat that didn't exist had the US not started a proxy war with Russia. Poland is also as corrupt as Nigeria.
what is wrong with honest profession? in my eyes it is better than some stupid university degree the richest economy in EU Germany has by far lower amont of university graduates and they are doing just fine
As a Pole, I can attest to that. Education has always been highly emphasized here, so that's about right, many people are quite hgihly educated. To the point that education has not became so desirable in the market, so trades are now quite a good carrer path. Unlike it was in the past, when it was very much frowned upon and publicly shamed.
@@martinpiekarski1512 This has changed in the UK also. Due to the cost of higher education and competition on that job market, IF I was young now, then I would be seriously considering becoming a carpenter / joiner, plumber or electrician.
No one I know is "insanely rich" in Poland, what a clickbait title. At best, most of my friends are reasonably middle class, which in itself is a great achievement considering where we started from back in 1990 after communism fell. It was a long road and still far from over.
@@julijanbratina5946 national debt of Poland is sky high and climbing. i cant understand why this factor is ignored whenever "richness" of a contry is a subject of a conversation. yes "insanely rich" is a clickbait, and misleading at that.
@isabellgreen-w2s Iget your point I do agree that debt is an important factor but every country has dept and you also have to acknowledge that relative dept is in play and poland has an average dept in eu it is right in the middle. For instance greeces and italys depts are much higher so relatively to them poland is doing way better.
I’m Portuguese and I think Poland puts my country to shame. When they joined the EU they weren’t forgetful of their hardships or their troubled past and quickly rolled up the sleeves to make the most of the European funds they were getting. In my country, corruption settled in when the cash cow arrived (in the early 90’s) and now we live predominantly of tourism, because big industrial entrepreneurship is almost like a mirage. Goes to show that great leadership is everything!
They kept their currency, the Polish złoty, that is why they were able to keep the cost of labour low. At the same time Poland is one of the countries in the EU that got more money.
@@biomorphic Poland is just a slave of the West, so there's no point in glorifying its rise because people who are profiting from that rise the most are still the CEOs and board members of Western companies. Most of the Polish media and Polish mall chains are in Western hands and now also the Chinese are trying to enter Poland more aggressively. In terms of geopolitics, Poland is a complete slave of Washington, never doing anything on their own without Uncle Sam's approval. So yeah, Poland is better off now than it was 30 years ago but so is most of the world anyway. The same pattern applies to basically every European post-Soviet economy which became part of NATO & the EU.
I’m a Pole moving back from Belgium. It’s 100% comparable. Prices for everything are at least half time lower, so lower salary with lower taxes can give you the same. Healthcare is much better in Belgium, but it’s also not free. Having a business in Polands is much cheaper though. There are pros and cons in each country but it’s absolutely comparable.
Poland needs to become a stable economic powerhouse in Europe. This stability contributes to the defence of Europe generally as adversaries become innovative and pressurize Europe economically and politically.
@ettoreatalan8303 The Poles I've met despise Russia far, far more than Western Europe. The EU treats Poland as an increasingly important and contemporary trade partner, while Russia seems to regard them as inferior Slavic vassals that should be kowtowing to their Muscovite overlords.
@@bluecedar7914 Non-Slavs are regarded as subhumans in Russia, e.g., when apartments are only rented to Slavs. The fact that some Poles despise Western Europe at least a little should give Western Europe pause for thought.
What happens to the peoples of these nations when the host dies? All of those benefiting from the UK are doomed when that population can't support them anymore. UK's and it's population decline is fatal for the countries and other people than benefit from it. Serious lack of intelligence.
We are polish couple. We had to leave the UK. My partner god PTSD after fighting with system. It was modern slavery on workship visa as a home carer. Nobody helped us. She has studies, know language and has willing to work. People from Africa comes on boats and get free accomodation and diet, but my partner coudn't legally work there. That's riddiculous!! Lifestyle and people are lovely, but system sucks.
I've lived in the UK for nearly 25 years but early this year I made the painful defision to move back to my home country of Italy. The UK has been home to me and I always felt welcome but things have shifted since Brexit and I do not feel the same way anomore. I've been lucky enough to work and befriend many Poles in my time in the UK and I can vouch for their high level of education and strong work ethic, something both British and Italians could learn from in spades! And I am very happy to have now found a very good job for a Polish company that operates in the space of Artificial Intelligence! Once again testament to how well Poland is doing! Onwards and upwords!
It's because Poles are coming back to their motherland. Given that they were immigrants in the UK and economic stuation forced them to imigrate, it's natural that they want to come back to their country of origin now that situation has changed. So basically, it's not exactly like Poland is getting stronger, but rather it gains back what it has lost previously.
@@martinpiekarski1512 i don't know any polish that are going back home. I work with loads. They all tell me that since the pandemic it has gotten even more expensive to live there.
My dear British friends, if we can create better living conditions for you at this moment, it is an honor for us. We have supported each other many times in the fight against challenges. For a long time, Poles were able to thrive in the United Kingdom, and now we are happy to welcome you here. Nothing lasts forever, but friendship is eternal.
Thank you Brexiteers !!! I spent a few years working in London (AI engineer), paying 40% bracket tax, never using any of those 'legendary social benefits', and got attacked several times when cycling through bad neighborhoods. I'm in Warsaw now: a safe, clean city, with thriving businesses, and interesting high-tech jobs.
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 True, but does that really matter to him? He still got attacked, and he still moved back to Poland. Giving back the AI engineering job to indigenous Brits for the same salary, I guess.
Why were you cycling through bad neighbourhoods? Let's not pretend that Warsaw or any other Polish city is 100% safe, there are rough areas everywhere. I also wouldn't call London a city with dying businesses...
@@webiorg6147 For example to get from Canary Wharf to Greenwich - I was attacked on East Ferry Rd. Not the worst neighborhood, but still it happened. I don't know any area in Warsaw I shouldn't cycle through for safety reasons, at least, as a relatively healthy 48-year-old male (I'm not talking about possible problems with traffic here - there's still a need for more bike lanes in Warsaw).
Guys, where do you get these photos of Polish farmers with horse-drawn plows? I have lived in Poland for 43 years and I don't remember ever seeing anything like this in my life! In fact, Polish "Ursus" factory was among the top 10 largest tractor manufacturers in the world in the 70s and 80s (but it went bakrupt in 2003). That said, Poland is not going to be any superpower, because it's caught in the middle income trap, where salaries are too high to compete in low-tech sectors with Asian countries, but too low to attract top talents and develop high-tech industries. We have a "strong IT sector", but so does India - it's not about groundbreaking technology. There is no grand development plan on the part of the government either, the only good thing we got from them is relatively low taxes for enterpreneurs - or rather just enough loopholes to make tax optimization reasonably easy. But it may come to an end as we buy thousands of super expensive tanks and helicopters from overseas to eventually combat Russian kamikaze drones... Besides, our friends from Germany need cheap labor and subcontractors without associated social welfare costs (and now without subsidizing us via EU), so they will make sure that we stay at this exact level for a long time.
Have you ever been to villages around Kielce and świętokrzyskie in general? I went there 15 and 20 years ago and it was a really unpleasant time travel.
00:20 Correction: "Poland's economy is projected to become 10 times bigger." Your data shows both the past and the future in chart. However there's no guarantee that Poland's economy will grow between 2024-2029 in that rate. You are presenting your data as if that growth of Poland has already happened. Noone can predict the future, least of all the economists.
Well yeah, thats what "projection" means. Simply put it most likely wont look like this in the future, but if you draw that graph in Excel and put a trend line extending into the future it goes in that direction 😊
Only the parasitic elite in those countries are in the clique. The big mass of citizens will never get their hands on hardly any of the money. They are just domestic animals on the plantation.
Maybe he though about insanely rich in Regards what we had in Poland in 1989. However in Basic term Poland is just getting close to EU average nothing extraordinary.
I've been to Poland a few times. Its so much better kept than the UK. I've never seen such clean streets and well maintained parks. Their public transport system & how you pay to ride it is really good
I find Scotland and Wales are really nice and tidy, whilst England (urban cities) are not. I’d fully understand why those two Celtic nations are wanting to distance themselves from England. Poland has the right idea.
@RebelCity_ I take it you haven't seen Cardiff recently? Unfortunately they seem to want to distance themselves by trying to out-woke each other, seeing who can implode first.
@@RebelCity_I live in Cardiff and my wife is polish so I’ve been a lot. Wales is nowhere near as clean and safe as Poland. Cardiff unless it’s nice area is a dirty with rubbish everywhere
The Uk economy has pretty much been flat for the last two decades. An inconsistent immigration policy, lack of decisive leadership and inability to form new trade deals post brexit have left it stymied.
Economic knowledge: 1. The goods that the UK imports or exports can be found in only 10 countries outside Europe. 2. That's why there are only these clown agreements. And it won't get much better for many years. 3. In these climate times, transporting goods thousands of kilometres in a climate-damaging way instead of buying or selling them from/to your neighbour's doorstep is unbelievably braindead. 4. No wonder 17.4 million Leave voters voted for this braindead bollocks. Michael_from_EU-Germany, retired Lecturer for national and international economics
Well the few trade deals the UK has made post Brexit have been really bad for us. And of course they have. We put ourselves in a weak position where we suddenly really needed more trade to replace what we lost with the EU, while other countries were quite happy with what they already had. Any deal made from a position of weakness like that is going to be a bad deal for the weaker party. The government was able to make some deals with smaller countries we don’t trade with much, so the downsides weren’t obvious to most people, and the press didn’t really talk about them either. But any deal with a big economy we trade with a lot would come with soo many very harsh downsides for the UK that ordinary people would inevitably find out about, and they would be totally unacceptable to normal people. Especially because all the people who voted Brexit were promised “they need us more than we need them” so wouldn’t understand why we were getting shafted. They would view any deal that didn’t have the UK come out on top as a result of incompetence or deliberate sabotage. And people who voted remain never wanted any of this in the first place and lots don’t understand why we can’t just rejoin the EU and go back to how things were. So making significant trade deals, with all the downsides to British industries, public services and sovereignty that would inevitably come with them would be political suicide atm. So we’re kinda stuck in a spot between expectation and reality
@@Sam-d8o6q I’d say even longer. The economy has been a bluff since the 70s. On the outside everyone appears wealthy. On the inside everyone has debt up to their eyeballs
@@WhichDoctor1 You missed the point, to trade with others you need to have something they need, Surely those countries don't need paper called money, they need food and energy all other things are not important, right now many countries are competing for the same minerals and the BRICS PLUS are taking over living others in behind, no longer taking things by force, Countries that used to rely on 0 interest rates and the printing machine are in big trouble as Inflation is the boss that is why the Government is taxing instead of printing on top of all this those Gulf countries who used to park their money in British Banks are taking them out soon they get in and invest the profit in their countries
To be honest having worked in the UK engineering sphere when you get to the shop floor of manufacturing the Polish workers demonstrate aptitude that once British workers had in the 1960s. Suitably educated and totally dedicated. Apprenticeships for decades disappeared from the UK during the planned dis-industrialisation program of Investment in cheap overseas labour. It made a great amount of wealth for the banks which viewed our own manufacturing facilities as competition to their Chinese interests. Hence artificial forced decline and demoralisation of UK manufacturing. This program is ongoing.
It also doesn't improve UK's situation that their current government has decided to go full 1984 on their own people, further encouraging high-skill workers to leave the country.
@@littlefinger4509 the salaries do not increase at all, and even when the minimal payment is increased by the government then the prices increase way more (in %) than the salary.
What is making Poland a success, is the well educated, skilled and hard working population of Poland. It has nothing to do with the UK's decline. Well done Poland I wish you all the more success in the future.
@@crose7412 No, he demonstrated nothing of the sort. They left a country in decline, to return to their homeland which is booming, and also post brexit, many of them feel unwelcome in Britain. Where is the evidence to support the claim that their departure either caused, or added to the decline of the UK? Confidently stating something as fact, does not make it a fact.
@@crose7412 1: The destruction of the manufacturing sector. 2: Lack of investment in skills training. 3: Lack of investment in R&D both for new products and production methods. 4: The cultivation of the idea that all manufacturing and agricultural work at all levels is low status. 5: Out-sourcing. 6: Generalised stupidity. 7: Brexit (a by-product of 6 above). The above list is by no means comprehensive, but includes the most significant factors IMHO.
Mass immigration from poorer nations is unsustainable. What happens when there are no more poor countries to exploit? And you've only delayed reforming your own labour market anyway.
Well we're leaving UK because it became a shit hole. Britain has changed from a nice country with values and culture where we could actually work, respecting it all, to a huge mess with a lot of problems, especially safety. There's a huge difference between having EU migrants who went there to actually work and all the other who went there for free stuff, causing mayhem. And trust me on this - we hate it and are sad seeing what has happened to the UK because of the stupid politicians! It angers us the same as it angers some of the native Brits! The worst part is that it's only gonna get worse. 10-20 years and UK is gonna turn into Englanistan which is just insane. So little people understand and see how fast middle easterns population grows. They get way more babies than native Brits and it wouldn't be bad if not the fact that most of those people, instead of accepting the rules and all Britain has to offer, they create their own like they are the rulers... Wtf
As a Brit who has lived in Poland a long time but returns to the UK regularly, I'm too often appalled and ashamed by the contrasting behaviours of people in the UK. Some Brits (like the gentleman above) put the blame on immigrants. I think they're deceiving themselves and need to be picked up by the scruff of the neck and made to look in the mirror at their own behaviour. For me, it is British folk (yes, white, indigenous, English, Welsh and Scottish folk and not immigrants) who are the problem. If you go to any public place in South East England you will find yourself deafened by loud-mouthed, often drunk, crowds of uncouth, over-confident and often aggressive Brits. Immigrants drink less, are more modest and seem harder working. This is a shock after Poland where people are more restrained, value their time and money more and seem harder working. Much of the British population (as opposed to the immigrant population) seem to think its their birthright to go out on the town several nights a week, take regular holidays, splash out on flashy cars, or that football ranks equal or higher than education, work, family or culture, Yes, I say the word culture knowing that some Brits will react - he's a privileged snob. Actually in Poland, a large percentage of the population goes to the theatre regularly, to concerts, to cinema etc. Poles also value their time and money and do not take their recently improved living standards for granted. They remember bare shelves, foreign occupation and a currency so weak that, even if they were allowed to travel anywhere, they couldn't afford anything. The Brits on the other hand still think they have an empire, and are "better" than foreigners. In this respect they're increasingly entitled and delusional.
A German friend of mine in a high position moved to Poland 8 years ago. He should have only stayed for 3 years, but keeps extending his stay. He says that his family's standard of living is better than in Germany. So it's not just the UK that has lost the edge.
For a country that sold out Poland to Stalin, no complaints please. I don't think whining about the British economy in 2024 is comparable to being occupied by the Red Army for 4 decades.
To be honest, by some historical irony, it's precisely the fact that Poland was under Stalin's influence which enabled it to have its modern borders and to be so homogeneous, unlike the Western European states.
@@martinledermann1862ironically that is true. As a repatriated Polish person. It is thanks to Hitler and Stalin that I have money from the UK to reinvest in this wonderful country. Because of the merciless persecution of minorities by the Nazis and the Soviets Poland is a homogeneous country with high levels of societal trust....
Poland was not sold out by Britain, Churchill was very vocal about it at the Yalta conference, is was Roosevelt who sold them out, Churchill wanted to have a War against the Soviets so get your fact right Kaaskop.
The big issue is that the UK fails to train the doctors it needs. This initially started under Blair when he put in quotas on training to save money. He also massively reduced hospital beds and introduced PFI funding. The end result is a shortage of medical staff and hospitals we don’t own. Meanwhile we have 9 million economically inactive, something not mentioned at all in this analysis.
@@Dmitrij-nl3sc Poland`s aging out and demographic decline are gonna be the end of prosperity. Poland still has a young enough population but it`s aging out faster than Germany.
Uk was always a pyramid from the right parts of London, where the aristocracy live it up, to the broke back waters of Scotland and N.Ireland. Good London and home counties - bad london and outer london - southern england - northern england - wales - scotland - n.ireland. money goes up. sht rolls down.
I'm sorry but I'm Polish and 2 minutes in I had to stop watching. It's hard to watch a video about your country and people from somebody, who seems to have knowledge not exceeding some sort of wikipedia summary or whatever were the sources....
I think you need to ask what created the huge dependency on foreign labour in the UK in the first place. This was a result of neo-liberalism and neo-classical economists using concepts such as comparative advantage and believing that a free labour market (and deregulated capiital and goods markets) would "lift all boats". They were wrong and that is not what happened. The policies they put forward ended up deindustrialising Britain while making a few people very rich. Britain has surplus labour and low productivity. Yet it relies on foreign trained labour. The reason is that capital relies on cheap foreign trained labour instead of training up their own. The low resulting low productivity of British labour is the real cause of Britain's decline
Poles and other foreign workers were adding more value (work => British profit) to the UK than they were sending home (pounds). In the big picture, when you suddenly remove all that continuously added value (Poles & co. now moving out) from the country, the UK becomes poorer per total, as a country. That simple. Since those working Poles moved back to Poland, the amount the UK got poorer is the amount by which Poland is now getting richer, if you don't count the many socioeconomic factors that make this not exactly accurate. In theory, now the UK's remaining wealth should spread among the population, the British employers being forced to hire the natives (and pay them better for the same work, since that's the reason it was Poles, not Brits, who accepted to do those jobs before). That was exactly what the leave voters hoped, but obviously is not happening. Even if it happened like that, the employers would not accept narrower profit margins, and would pass the higher labor costs on to the products and services they offer, so to the customers. Brits as a nation would have more jobs and better wages, but everything would be more expensive, hence their purchasing power and quality of life would plummet worse than it was with the Poles propping up the system with their sweat and tears. All this is theory, though. Even with the cheap labor having disappeared from the UK (Poles left) and the country becoming poorer for it, you bet that the rich will just find ways to squeeze the average Brit even more, so Brits will have it double as bad.
@@Constantinus213421 Poles are productive because of the legacy of the communist era vocational programmes. It invested in its workers. Productivity is low in Britain because there is not that investment. Immigration does not increase productivity (or GNP per capita) but increases the population size. While output increases, so does the population size, so no surprise. Basically people have to feel they have a stake in the production process and that their work is valued. Remarks from the elite like "foreigners do works British people won't do" is hypocritical and precisely the sort of the thing that led to Brexit. It is a social thing that cannot be understood with neo-classical economic theory. British workers have been disenpowered, disenfranchised. This, the reliance on immigration, is not how you run a successful economy. Also from a global perspective it is wrong: Britain should not free ride on other countries training and education schemes. The fact we are getting doctors now from countries with scarcer resources than Britain is of course even worse.
Government ruins everything. We have the opposite of a free market in the UK. Next to impossible to set up a small business with all of the unnecessary regulations and the government breathing down your neck.
Polska to jedyny kraj który rozwija inne gospodarki plus ekstremalnie rozwija swoją .Teraz wyobraźmy sobie że wszyscy Polacy by wrócili do Domu . Nie zapomnimy że Polska została całkowicie zniszczona Podczas 2 wojny światowej. Zdradzona przez ,, Przyjacieli z zachodu " . I oddana w Komunizm na 40 lat bez możliwości rozwoju. Mimo to Powstają takie Filmy jak ten . Niecha żyje Polska . Cześć i chwała Bochaterom !!!!
This is all good when you have a salary like in the UK, but live in Poland. But when you live in Poland you have a Polish salary (x2.3 times lower than British salary)
Im an English plumber and have worked with hundreds of different tradesmen from around Europe. Unpopular opinion here but I think a lot of the English people need to rise up and become better workers Because I have worked with too many idiots that just don’t care about doing a good quality job. Worked with plenty of Eastern Europeans that that are very good workers and decent respectful people.
When one country is getting rich at expense of another. Nothing to celebrate. Not targeting Poland or UK but if a country simply gets wealthy from wealth extraction and not wealth creation it is rarely long lasting
In my opinion Poland is a safe country. There are no issues such "you shouldn't go there or there", noone is afraid of going out even in the middle of the night. But on the other hand - GDP growth doesn't tell the whole story. Vast majority of polish ppl earns around minimal wage (which is less than 1000 pounds).
Making Poland insanely rich? Dude, NFZ is bankrupt. I literally can't even get to the doctor. Extreme poverty is reaching all-time high right now. I just can't fucking see that
This video is mostly anti-british propaganda. These video creators do not know, that sometimes in Poland, you have to wait 2-3 years to be able to get an appointment to some specific doctor via NFZ, and if the employer does not provide private Scanmed/Luxmed insurance you are forced to pay a lot of money. And when the median salary equals 6500 PLN Gross that becomes extremely challenging for the majority of Polish population.
As a pole living in the uk I actually don't care that much about the economy. What I don't like is what the government is doing with freedom of speech, and how its treating even its native citizens, I came before brexit and I dismissed it as some silly political stunt which won't actually go thru, but it did...
its not, only 25% of London is Asian that's barely any, and most people have British Citizenship anyway
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5:14 The reparations from defeated Germany went collectively to Soviets, who were to distribute it among countries under it's communist reign. Out of all the total funds received by USSR, around 1/8th was agreed to be reserved and aimed for Poles, but finally less than 0,5% reached their recipient.
i don't think this true eastern european workforce in UK tended to be lower skilled than UK average because well educated qualified Poles tend to prefer staying in Poland it's normal for people to prefer their own country
I've been living in the UK for the past 10 years 2016-2020 was ok, not everyone could be making a lot of money but it would be enough. Past covid, what was once a high wage is the new just about wage and I don't even know how people on minimum wage survive especially in London I myself will be leaving the UK in the next couple of years
Rich? How am I supposed to be rich when in my city I don't have any job perspectives better than warehouse? Where I could earn less than 1000€(about 815€ without overtime in 2025). My depression to live without work for about 2 months reached its peak. While I have some experience, a job without connections is impossible. I consider to work aboard again. I don't care about the country while I could not even consider buying a car or travelling around. I can save up some cash because I'm alone. This is my frustration and depression. I don't have any reason and luck to find myself and live while working at the place where I could earn and fulfil my abitions. Well the cost of living is a huge problem. Imagine working and earning less than 1000€ while food, energy, and water costs are rising while you are alone. In my city room costs about 185 € so from 815€ if you are working about 160 hours a month it's a huge cost. The rent of the whole flat is about 464 € so yup, good luck with that. I really can't see any perspetives. I could educate, but I lost about 90% of my interests. I don't know what to do in my life. Sitting and watching youtube is not productive. I'm losing time again. While I can't find anything that could give me joy. As always, I will adapt and find something, but I can't think about my happiness in the future. Suicide is dumb thing to do anyway, so I exist without reason on this year. Well, my social skills are also lost. Eh enough propably I will call tomorrow to work agency or something and adapt to my formless life without a plan and a reason besides my working experience in many places. Why did I even write that? It's a whim...
Click bait and propaganda. "Insanely rich"? Don't think so. Costs of living are almost the same as UK (except for costs of accomodation), and wages are still 2-3 times lower than UK. Saying this as a Pole, that lived in UK for 7 years.
I heard a lot about how bad it was with poles that took brits jobs, before brexit, now that problem is solved, just get poorer than poland, then they go home, problem solved.
The most important part of this "genius plan" is to replace skilled migrants from eastern europe who work and contribute to the economy with illegals from middle east etc, who don't work, get goverment housing and benefits and are a burden to the economy.
Poland is not poor and never was, after the fall of communism there was a shortage of goods but the people were not poor in any sense of the word, but I was born in 1965 and my dad was the in army and Britain was poorer believe me, we had almost FA and it only really got better mid nineties and the prosperity was short lived. We Brits didn't have the oppurtunity to just run away and offer ourselves up as cheap labour and instantly better our lives, we had to stick at it and make the country better but of course when it was good times let everybody in to steal it from under our noses. Now the Poles being the Rats they are, are deserting the sinking ship. I speak fluent Polish and have close contact with Poles for more than 30 years and know the mindset. Reading your post make me think you are not in the UK, how many Poles do you know in your native country that have bothered to learn the language?
This is all about investing in EDUCATION. while allowing a free market to boom. Rich countries think that they will get migrants to do the hard work, but there is no mechanic or a chemist to lead them.
Refutation: 1. The majority of more than 1 million Syrians who fled to Germany in 2015 and 2016 are now in employment. 2. Over 70 per cent work at specialist level
@@Constantinus213421 Additional Information A recent study by the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), which is part of the Federal Employment Agency, also shows that more than half of those who arrived in 2015 are in employment. For those who have been here a year longer, the figure is 62 per cent. By comparison, the employment rate in Germany as a whole is around 76 per cent. The majority works at the level of a specialist "One of the astonishing findings is that 70 per cent of people work at least at skilled worker level or above," says the head of the IAB study, Professor Herbert Brücker. Of these, four per cent are academics and six per cent work in complex technical professions. This is astonishing, as only around 30 per cent had studied or completed vocational training when they arrived. "That has improved in the meantime. A further 30 per cent have studied, trained or attended school in Germany."
To be fair it's a gamble. Many, many people in Poland emigrated just after finishing studies. So exact moment the state stops funding the person and the person starts funding the state. On the surface it sounds terrible, but yeah, it was pretty wise as PL had (and have) really good ratio of skill/cost workforce. Which ramped up that investment. Sincerely, a Polish uni student
It's not that wonderful in the Polish healthcare sector, not enough doctors, not enough nurses, not enough funds - they are trying to fill the gaps with Ukrainians while the population is ageing and decreasing (demands growing).
Polish doctors are the world's finest: unlike most (or coming) in/into the West who enter the profession with degrees from 3rd rate institutions and 3d world standards..
@@dol3980 Due to the different standards, their diplomas actually have to be authenticated and they have to retake the exams - that is the procedure. The problem is rather with the language, as people can fake their certificates.
As a medical practitioner dealing with eyesight problems in Poland, i can confirm. It is unfortunate that you have to wait over a year to get something as simple as a normal eye exam as part of your free healthcare, and when you do, it is usually done quickly, poorly and you need to confirm it in the private sector anyway, because professionals can't consider it reliable. And better yet, the government provides you with a huge 36pln discount on your 1000 PLN glasses.
As an occupational therapist, I returned to Poland in 2014. I now earn 1.5 times more than I did in Ireland, where salaries are considered good, and my living costs in Poland are 2.5 times lower. The streets are clean, it’s safe at night, and returning was the best decision of my life.
I think that this clip is oversimplified, and based more on emotions than the facts. Let’s take those 400,000 Poles who left the UK after the Brexit. I don’t see them moving back to Poland, a lot of them moved to other Western European countries. But, for example, two of my cousins still stay and work in England. Next, the author presented highly skilled Poles moving back to Poland as those driving the economy. No, I do not see them as a major or even minor factor driving the Poland economical growth. I would say those, who stayed in Poland, are folks who have built the country. Next, yes, the current success of Poland is on the shoulders of the current 40-60 years old citizens. But the younger generation is as spoiled as their counterparts in the West. With them entering job market with high expectations and low commitments Poland is losing its competitive edge of the success-hungry hard-working generations who remember socialism times. We need to add the fact of noticeable migration to Poland of those who retired in the UK and other wealthier European countries spending their money in Poland while enjoying the safer environment. And who as well drive real estate and rental prices to the level difficult for average Polish citizen to effort. And I could continue, but the fact is that authors picked a few simple facts to build the narrative on, but without digging deeper before jumping to conclusions.
@@juliuszkocinski7478 In Poland almost a half of the working population work for minimal wage (number is tripled in past 5 years). In Germany the minimum wage is 2 times higher than in Poland. At the same time the prices in Poland and Germany are the same. So I am not sure why this video promotes Poland because I can clearly see that the author didn't even analyze the life of the locals. Just abstract GDP or GENI or other tells you nothing about real life
Pride and arrogance have led to the downfall of many empires. As it turns out, Germany has the same problem-they are so proud of their industry that they are starting to lose. Meanwhile, the countries of Eastern Europe, which were devastated by the West for centuries, are slowly becoming a rising power. Not only do they have strong competencies, but they are also hardworking and creative. Moreover, in countries like Poland, you can walk the streets safely even at night because there are no terrorists.
That's bullshit... The level of poverty and robbery in terms of taxes is still really rubbish in Poland... Minimal wage is nowhere near this living cost
Polands gdp/capita in (ppp) purchase power parity is at 52000$ now. Japans is just lil above with its 54000$. Germanys is about 73000$. What i want to say is, that poland counts as a pretty rich country now beeing very very very far above the international level. Poland continues growing and growing without destroying their currency due to too many debts. Capitalism is lowered the poverty rate extreme and will keep going. Same happeing to vietnam rn but at a far lower level. But slowly more and more countries follow the recipe of free markets. Sadly in my home country germany it goes the other way round...
As an Italian, living in the UK, who has family in Poland. I can tell you, that the UK is finished. It is still a great country in some aspects, our welfare system is still one of the best (which actually creates other issues but anyway) and Natural disasters are few and far between, but, apart from that, nothing saves it. Having visited my family in Poland, the economic increase it is witnessing is unprecedented, in such a short space of time to grow so much is unheard of. Poland is clean, developed, hard working and safe. It has not subscribed to the Open Borders Policy of letting everyone and anyone in, and it has focused on attracting back its expats and reversing the brain drain it suffered in the early 2000’s. That’s one key difference between Poland and the UK. Their government cares about their people. The other key difference is that the people care about the country. Polish people are very Proud and Patriotic due to the horrors that have happened in their country throughout history, which means that resilience, pride and work ethic is engrained into Polish People. Higher work ethic = higher productivity and also means that Poles are incentivised to better their own country. Instead the British mindset is a pessimistic, negative, narcissistic mind set of “everything’s shite” “I’m leaving” and if you show any ounce of patriotism you are considered “right wing”. This emphasises that British people have lost hope and don’t care to improve the state of things here as there is a shared mindset that we are too far gone. Also, the focus by Educative bodies and the Government on culture wars rather than important issues, has steered policy away from improving the economy and has also stigmatised and alienated sections of society on all sides, meaning that the UK now has deep rooted social issues. What started as a anti-racist/decolonisation rhetoric that meant well, has actually led to those very problems becoming worse as the British people and political parties look for a scapegoat for their own problems. Britain’s biggest issue, in my opinion, is distraction politics. As mentioned before, one of the main narratives in British Society and Politica at the moment is Anti Immigration. Though it is true that the Open Borders Policy has deepened social and economic divide, it is not the whole story. The government is actually to blame for the wider picture. However, as all political parties do, Anti-Immigration has become a very big scapegoat in this country for our real issues. As a result, policy focuses on pointless, petty culture wars and the real focus of the issues becomes lost. However, the British people are also to blame. I have never seen a population more zombie-like and stagnant as the British. I think this is a deep rooted cultural thing as the British “stiff upper lip” is certainly true. You just get on with it here. People complain and moan constantly but don’t do anything about here. Most other countries by now would have had a revolution, justifiably so. However, in Britain there is a lack of organisation on a local level from pressure groups and activist groups and more importantly, there is a lack of unity amongst the population which has been purposely inflicted by political parties to keep people divided so that we don’t unite to fight one common enemy. It is text book authoritarianism and divide and conquer. Ironic that the British Government are now using their own Colonisation tactics on their own people. I think British people lack unity, hope and Optimism and therefore a mass fight back has not been able to come to fruition. In recent times, we have seen more protests from different sectors of society but they are still very much based on bi-partisan issues and often actually miss the real point and focus. This coupled with the fact that the UK government has now become akin to Russia or China’s in silencing narratives and groups that they don’t like, means that any sort of uprising from the population has become almost impossible. The UK is in trouble and though all of Western Europe is in rough seas at the moment, as someone who is well travelled and has first hand experience of Italy, Britain and Polands economy, trust me when I say the UK is the worst of them all. Economically, Socially and Politically this country is too far gone unless the British People manage to overcome all these hurdles somehow and force a change (and no, voting for a different political party to the one that shafted you previously is not going to work, just like it didn’t the last time, im talking about a complete overhaul of the system and a revolution) but unfortunately, I truly and sadly believe the British people and British Society does not have it in them to do this. It is a country that is beautiful, has so much potential and great people, being spoilt by a select few, who have everyone wrapped round their little fingers. Personally, get out now whilst you still can because honestly would not surprise me if the British Government make leaving the country illegal at some point wih the way they are acting at the moment. Oh also before I forget, regulation is also one of Britain’s downfalls. It is perhaps one of the most over regulated countries on earth. Regulation at a basic level is good, increases safety and decreases exploitation, but when it becomes excessive like here in the UK you suppress economic growth, by presenting too many obstacles for new buisnesses thus creating an unnatractive buisness environment and you slow the whole economy down. Over regulation means more hurdles, more paperwork, more oversight which ultimately reduces productivity and is responsible for half the reason as to why every service in the UK from NHS waiting lists to driving tests is backlogged at the moment. Deregulate slightly, and you will find the economy frees itself up and becomes more fluid, and cash flow then follows. Think of it like a circuit, the economy moves quicker which means the cash flows quicker through the circuit which means you get more money passing through. It is simple economics really and this comes from someone who has never studied economics, you don’t need to be a genius to figure this stuff out which leads me to truly believe that the governments of this country have an external agenda they are adhearing to. Not to mention the way that the UK has one of the most rigid social class structures in the world. Though the Uk is not officially feudalist, underneath it still very much operates as a feudalist system, with a large class divide and little to no social mobility. The reason for this? Well let’s take the NHS For example. There is currently a lack of skilled workers in the NHS. One reason? Well since Brexit the Uk has come a less attractive destination for skilled foreign doctors who upon we which we relied on for a lot of our skilled labour prior to brexit. The other reason? Well for starters if you have to rely on foreign labour to fill positions in the British Job market then that means as a government you haven’t done enough to train and attract British workers to that field. In the case of the NHS, Nurses in particular are overworked and underpaid, thus deattracting people from the role. Secondly, to become a nurse it takes years of disrupted overpriced education, again, an unattractive proposition. See what I am trying to say? So many industries in the UK contain too many obstacles prior to entering that industry for British people, whether that be financial or social obstacles, making key job roles that the economy relies on for growth and function like Nurses, Lorry Drivers and Driving Examiners unattractive. Now that the UK has almost closed its borders to skilled foreign labour and opened it to unskilled foreign labour, these decades long issues are coming to fruition. We are importing more people reliant on the state, and exporting more people contributing to the state, whilst not promoting home grown skill and talent in order to take the place of exported foreign talent.
Yep. Just about hits every nail on the head I'd say. Thanks for your view - Might even copy this comment and save it somewhere "Their government cares about their people" what a revolutionary concept for those of us stuck here!!
@pendiro Yes, because in addition to that, there is a LOT of regulations that destroy Polish industry and farming, and the mining sector. Those 1-2% are often use for, in fact, consumption, not real investments...
I recently moved back to Poland at the age of 21 after spending 17 years in the UK. The main reason for my move is that I have a remote job with a good income. In my experience, the quality of life in Poland is much better than in the UK. That said, if I had to return and work for £1,000 a month, I probably wouldn’t have made the move.
You're completely missing the point. The UK was the number 1 spot for Poles after Poland joined EU because it was the first country to open it's borders with good job offers for Poles. Germany had many Poles already while the UK only had whoever remained there after WW2. Does Germany have overal more Poles? Yes, by a long shot (however it's not on the 2nd place, Brazil is 2nd), but more Poles moved to the UK after joining the EU and the 'Polonia' population growth in the UK was bigger than in Germany.
Polish people came to England because of English language, just like most immigrants, however people from central and eastern Europe have been treated in UK as a lover class Europeans and faced constant direct discrimination by association to the history of English people, migrants from British colonies targeted eastern and central European countries to take advantage of welfare systems and to mix with Europeans for papers, to abuse people who have never had anything to do with British empire, so joining EU had a lot of negative consequences for people from Poland and eastern/central Europe.
Yeah, insanely rich, what a bullshit. Prices like in the west but 1/4-1/2 of western wages. Most expensive credits and properities. Biggest energy taxes because of UE CO2 biznes
Oh hey, we're rich? Can i build my own home for middle class income yet like my father did when he was my age? I can't? I'm 3 years older than he was when he started building his 3 stories house? Cool.... Poland is not getting "rich" guys Sure we cam buy a filling meal for pittance and cook it for even less And that's about it The 1% gets rich, our wages don't increase.
Absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Estonia and Slovenia use the euro for many years now. MUCH richer places than Poland. Lithuania also uses the euro and it's a country that grew FASTER than Poland for many years now. To the point that Lithuania now got same salaries like Poland while having MUUUCH higher GDP per capita than Poland. Also Croatia uses the euro and it's a country that now got basically the same salaries like Poland and also Croatia now got the SAME GDP per capita like Poland. Euro DOES NOT prevent any country from growing.
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Lithuania has a population of 3 million people, Slovenia 2 million people, Poland has a population of 36 million people, those are quite different countries and should be analyzed differently.
@@kk-cr4db Yes agreed. What about Spain then? It's growing fast for years and is using euro from the start and it's a country with minimum of 45 million people. Currently Spain got close to 2000 euros of the average monthly net salary and is still waaaaay bigger economy than Poland , both nominal and PPP. P.S. Poland got minimum of 40 million people.
British in Poland, minimum wage in Poland is 600 fucking pounds good luck in Poland other thing you need to speak Polish that's not easy , economy grows but that's is just for big company ,Poland is just for rich people and big companies. You need work hard to get good money that's why English like Polish people for hard word .
I spent few weeks in Poland during my trip from Australia to UK. Poland is not "Australia" yet, but demise of Europe and UK is apparent when comparing to Poland. It's not all about money, banks etc. Poland is a country with strong, healthy families, with well educated people. With future...
Government does not cut investments it does not invest. Government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs and Businesses do, government either stands in a way or not.
Uh, government bureaucrats do work you know? The reason why governments in the Middle East are bloated and extremely bureaucratic is because people here in the Middle East think the government exists to give them cushy jobs, though here in Iraq people have now developed an entrepreneurial mindset thankfully.
Excuse... what? Investing in infrastructure, roads, trains, energy... Government like any other capitalist on the market, can buy, sell, invest etc. Only difference is that government is not just an actor on the market, it is also the house of the market. As such it actually has more to say than majority of actors...
Yes they do it's called national company or state own company so yeah they do make investments, where do you think roads are built from businesses not it's from the government of course
To zbyt daleko w swych wnioskach idące prognozy.Oczywiście może się towydarzyć,jednak muszą jeszcze zaistnieć sprzyjające warunki,a nie tylko wyciąganie wniosków na podstawie hossy,która ma miejsce obecnie w Polsce.
Pamietajmy ze duzo kasy Polski idzie na wsparcie 🇺🇦. Wieksze przychody nie musza oznaczac ze mamy wiecej pieniedzy bo mamy mase wydatkow. Bogaci sa niemcy I bruksela (bruk cwela).
The video claims there are a shortage innthe UK of 100,000 Truck drivers …? I have driven Trucks for 20 years and can tell you this is crap. There are over 80,000 UK residents with a hgv Licence that do not use them. New passed Licence holders cannot get jobs as the Insurance require at least 2 years experience . ,……this claim is bogus
I found funny how mamy videos i see with "Poland is next superpower" becose big part of mine family and other pepole say Poland sucks and they gona move out
I realized a few days ago that people from most countries indeed have no diversification in industries. I was born in 2000 and it just hit me, that I am used to having any source of anything locally. Food? Made locally. Chemicals? Made locally. Sweets? Made locally. Clothes? (mostly) Made locally. We often buy franchises, yet I am just starting to notice that other people around the globe have to seek original sources of some good outside the country. And I remember no such need
UK rejects it's capitalist prosperity in favor of socialist poverty, while Poland remembers it's socialist poverty and is embracing it's capitalist prosperity.
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5:10 minor detail, but your map is wrong, Croatia is also part of the EU but is missing here on your map
No
Poland is a good example.. Uk needs to bac kto Europe,, in a proper way.. safe way..
Your video is a nice mix of facts, emotions and propaganda. There are so many errors - where do I begin to discuss?
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I am from Poland and I do not know if Poland is a rich country today. But the difference between 1983 (the time of my childhood), when there was only vinegar on the shelves in stores, and 2024 is certainly unbelievable. We now have good roads, good services, good public transport, not perfect but still good medical care, theaters, concerts, safety on the streets, stores full of everything, etc. It is really hard to believe that once I stood in line at the store for two days to buy meat, which was rationed on ration cards anyway. It is impossible to describe.
Depends what we understand as rich.
When you compare it only to Europe, then Poland is in the richer half of the continent, but only states that Europeans call rich, are Scandinavian and Benelux states.
But when you compare Poland to entire World, then yeah, you can even say that Poland is very rich.
I think people in Poland don't consider themself rich, because Poland borders even richer states like Germany. Denmark and Sweden. Hard to be relaxed if your neirghbour is doing better than you :p
Jeszcze trochę Tuska i nie będzie żadnego rozwoju.
… and GOOD GOVERNMENT!
@@arektrip9727 Jeszcze troche POPIS*
@@Tessarion7 Germany is failing now.
I like that no one from Poland comments on those "Poland success story" clips, but instead it's more like, "Are we on Germany's level yet? No? Then shut up and let me eat my pierogi."
I'm polish and I will tell you - it's true. There is nothing really to be happy about yet. What I do not understand is americans complaining on their country. They live in pretty much the safest and richest country with the most stable economy and yet, they claim things are sh*tty. That makes no sense.
@@martinpiekarski1512 Life for the average American is nothing great. Bad work culture, mass lay-offs and very competitive job-market, low purchasing power, no healthcare, toxic food, infrastructure is falling apart, lots of crime and violence in the cities. There's a reason why USA is called a third world country with a Gucci-belt.
@@martinpiekarski1512 POLAND has being doing good financially but due to you guys sharing a border with russia do you guys feel threatned by NATO's escalation of war with russia (I am from INDIA), NATO is conducting a joint exercise on polish soil with 5,000 NATO troops which might lead to escalation why don't you guys become a russian ally state like belarus because you guys share borders with much stronger country with stronger I don't call poland weak but I think you probably also know that the russian missile technolgy is second to none also they advaced air defence system like s-400,s-500 also they have 6000 nuke and 14,000 tanks with su-35,su-27,mig-29,su-30sm some su-57 fighter jet those Numbers can absolutely decimate poland rather being in alliance with USA, russia is much better and safer
@@martinpiekarski1512 the US "safest"? Dude, their national sport is shooting at each other. Look at literally any violent crime rate and it's like 3-5 times worse in the US than in Poland. Like, Baltimore has similar population to Kraków and it has more murders each year than entire Poland, a country of 38 million.
I personally know Americans that moved to Poland and are amazed that they can just, you know, walk the street and are not afraid of getting shot.
Try living abroad for some time and you will realise that it's actually Poles that don't know how nice Poland is and how massively it developed in the recent decades. I know that complaining is the national sport in Poland, but try looking at some objective data and you'll realise that these videos are right - and that Americans are actually also right in complaining.
@@martinpiekarski1512 "What I do not understand is americans complaining on their country." Try getting sick there and you'll understand.
Immigration is ‘increasingly unpopular’ in UK?
How about: “Third world immigration is a core failure of the UK political class and a primary distinction between Poland and the UK”?
The only immigrants you see in London atm are Africans and south east Asians. Good luck building a solid work force. Unless you want 200.000 Uber drivers.
@@piele1982 don't forget about fraud corruption and theft.
Or how about immigration gives us the workers we need
Underrated comment. This a huge part of it. Poland doesn't want third world problems, and it is paying off hugely.
We have plenty of migrants from central Asia and Caucasus mountains, not UK levels but definitely plenty of migration. What does significantly differ in Poland is the inequality levels. An advantage of communism was starting with fairly low inequality and We lucked out big time during the 90s and governments managed to secure good loans to ease the shock therapy and create decent law system that prevented oligarchisation (we probably did almost the best, Czechs only did solve it better as far as I know).
Actually, every country seems to be a beneficiary of UK's economic fall
Sad but true
Speaking simply - we work hard and you celebrate your sovereignty.
Thank you for your attention.
Except the UK. Congratulations you idiots who voted for Brexit.
Every country was victim of UKs rise
Why? Why is the British economy falling?
This is the very first time I hear anyone calls Poland insanely rich.
return of the commonWEALTH lol
Property prices in major Polish cities (and some minor ones) are becoming insane.
Under what rock have you been living recently?
Get used to it.
That's because it is not rich. This title is just a click bait.
As a Brit, I say good on Poland. I've lived with someone who is Polish and he is one of my best friends. Good food, strong culture and a sense of general honour which we don't seem to have anymore in urban centres of the UK.
Idk many in the Uk have honour
Poland doesn’t have good food
@@cecejones2883
Really? All my English friends who visited Poland many times, say it's foodies paradise. I tried potato pancake covered with beef (or pork) stew served with seleriac remulade instead of coleslaw - one of the best things I ever had.
@@cecejones2883 i don't know where you tried our food but i can assure you it was badly represented, unless you just hate meat and vegetables
I am Slovak citizen, but I live in the UK for 5 years. I see the country is not in a good condition, almost everything is in decline, only immigration, crime and poverty is growing. I can't really imagine to raise the family here. I hope I will be able to move to Poland or Czechia in a next few years. Salaries are maybe still not on that level as it is in the UK, but these countries are more family friendly, safer, cleaner and I feel I can fit better there with my background and mentality than as it is in the UK. England is still good country in a certain way, but problems are growing and it is hard and too expensive to live a decent life here. Poles deserves what they have, they had difficult history and were hit hardly by Nazis and Russians, but I believe they will be most succesful Slavic and Eastern European country and will show their full potencial in the future. But I wish they will stay down to earth and humble.
@shponger-q7o nice tim cap 7/7 denier
Well said!
@@shponger-q7o Russians?!? Oh, wake up already!
😂😂 so you isn't f..cken immigrant Slovak 🤮
Don't wait too long
Poland is not "Insanely Rich". It is not rich at all. Yes GDP is growing, yes streets look nice and clean, yes it is safe, because unemployment is low.
What you don't see is that majority of people work for less than 1 Thousand Pounds a month (median salary is 4600 PLN nett a month, while NMW is about 3600), while a lot of products cost same as in UK. You want to buy a bicycle, fridge, tv, computer etc, it costs same as in UK. Vodka and cigarettes are cheaper, food is about 20-30% cheaper than in UK.
What you don't see is that mortgages in Poland are less customer friendly than in UK. I did some research and let's say I mortgage 100k GBP in UK and in Poland. In UK over 30 years I'll pay off maybe 180% of borrowed amount, while in Poland I will pay off 230% of the amount. People pay mortgage over 10 years and they own bank much more than when they borrowed. What you don't see is renting flat in Poland is nearly as expensive as renting one in UK and to buy 1 bedroom flat in Poland in bigger city is a cost of around 100k GBP. Imagine buying it off less than 1k GBP a month.
What you don't see is that cars on Polish streets look older than in UK. People buy 8 years old car with 100k miles on the clock and are happy, because it's "nearly new". 90% of people in Poland have no savings at all and they live pay check to pay check. What looks like wealth is bought with loans or money from parents or inherited.
What you don't see is poverty is on a rise, due to raising costs of energy and other costs that are consequence of high energy prices.
What you don't see is that us Poles are taught to survive well in poor conditions.
What you hear on yt is that Poles are going back to Poland, what you don't hear is after some time in Poland some of them want to come back to UK, because they believed in "economic miracle" in Poland, but truth is you won't feed your family with growing GDP.
What you don't see is that country is politically divided like USA, with two main parties (pis and po), who are equally bad, but they managed to antagonise the society. Poland is getting better not thanks to politicians, but despite them.
Yes, it's much better than it was 20 years ago, yes people earn better than they used to, and some earn better then they would in UK, but it's not majority and it is very far from "Insanely Rich". It's just propaganda.
Poland has had more people returning than leaving for years now. But it’s not because the country is more developed and workers are returning to continue their careers in Poland, like the video and your comment suggested.
The main reason is that Poles who left to North America and Western Europe 20-30 years ago are nearing retirement age. They made their money in the West, have investments and pensions, and are coming back to retire closer to family. The fact that retirement benefits paid in Pounds, Euros, or Dollars can buy twice what they can in the West definitely helps, too.
Both my parents and 3 out of 5 uncles/aunts left Poland in the 90s. Today only one of these people is still abroad.
yes people are getting ahead of themselves with the "projected" gdp figures when in reality as gdp increases and wages rise there's a cascading effect of multiple factors which slows gdp growth down.
Thanks for your perspective, I haven't been sure what to make of this hype.
@@Lukasz-nw2pb You are right about people returning to PL to retire, but a lot of people return to work in PL. A lot of them are in their 30s, 40s and 50s, they miss their family and friends, they earned enough to build a house or buy a flat and they will continue their career in Poland.
Chłopie opanuj się!
@piotrgrzywnowicz601 jakies argumenty? Inaczej nic nie wnosisz do dyskusji
I left UK in 93 for Poland, I live in Warsaw, the change over the years has been amazing to see, I look back on these years, how the country has developed along with its people, they have plenty to be proud about ❤
That is so nice to hear over the years I have seen polish people leaving Ireland to go home because it was getting better, onwards and upwards for Poland ❤❤
Good for you sir! ❤
Lots of USA tech companies are setting up shop in Poland due to high English speaking ability, high education and low cost of wages relative to the USA.
Exactly, the USA is subsidising poland, now why would the USA do that other than business purpose, polands relationship with the US, has reach a new level
For USA's standards these wages may be low but here in Poland american (or even british) wages are like godsend XD Seriously
@@md2v4investments are not subsidies
that just means more job offshoring from the USA to Poland
Nonsense, for a start from next year the Polish minimal national wage will overtake the USA. As for English speaking I don't think so and have lived here for 30 years. I put a post on a Polish fakebook group in english as there is a translation feature. It was immediately jumped on and was told I had to write in Polish as not everbody has to know english and have some respect. When I checked the posters profile it was a Pole living in the UK, one of the majority of the 1.2million who after more than 10 years living there have not bothered to learn a word of the native language. I have worked with Poles all over europe and very few of them bother to learn the language of the host country. Poland rising GDP is all borrowed money that is being spent on US weapons for a threat that didn't exist had the US not started a proxy war with Russia. Poland is also as corrupt as Nigeria.
A LOT of Polish have two degrees and fluency in several languages. They're not all labourers and carpenters....
what is wrong with honest profession?
in my eyes it is better than some stupid university degree
the richest economy in EU Germany has by far lower amont of university graduates and they are doing just fine
As a Pole, I can attest to that. Education has always been highly emphasized here, so that's about right, many people are quite hgihly educated. To the point that education has not became so desirable in the market, so trades are now quite a good carrer path. Unlike it was in the past, when it was very much frowned upon and publicly shamed.
@@martinpiekarski1512 This has changed in the UK also. Due to the cost of higher education and competition on that job market, IF I was young now, then I would be seriously considering becoming a carpenter / joiner, plumber or electrician.
@@definitelynotadamnot to sure about that. The trades are and always have/will be low paid. It’s the British way I’m afraid. Race to the bottom.
I must have just had bad luck that all the ones I worked with were alcoholic and racist.. oh wait that's the English as well🤔
No one I know is "insanely rich" in Poland, what a clickbait title. At best, most of my friends are reasonably middle class, which in itself is a great achievement considering where we started from back in 1990 after communism fell. It was a long road and still far from over.
The title is poland is insanely rich not polish people, the country as a hole is growing.
@@julijanbratina5946 the country is not insanely rich. Go visit it.
@@julijanbratina5946 national debt of Poland is sky high and climbing. i cant understand why this factor is ignored whenever "richness" of a contry is a subject of a conversation. yes "insanely rich" is a clickbait, and misleading at that.
@isabellgreen-w2s Iget your point I do agree that debt is an important factor but every country has dept and you also have to acknowledge that relative dept is in play and poland has an average dept in eu it is right in the middle. For instance greeces and italys depts are much higher so relatively to them poland is doing way better.
@@julijanbratina5946 szczyjcie nad tamizą z... Arabami hahaha
I’m Portuguese and I think Poland puts my country to shame. When they joined the EU they weren’t forgetful of their hardships or their troubled past and quickly rolled up the sleeves to make the most of the European funds they were getting. In my country, corruption settled in when the cash cow arrived (in the early 90’s) and now we live predominantly of tourism, because big industrial entrepreneurship is almost like a mirage. Goes to show that great leadership is everything!
I'm polish and i'd rather live in Portugal
@@krzychch8937check earnings to living costs ratio.
@@krzychch8937That's only because you probably don't know much about Iberia and, as they say, "the grass is always greener on the other side"
They kept their currency, the Polish złoty, that is why they were able to keep the cost of labour low. At the same time Poland is one of the countries in the EU that got more money.
@@biomorphic Poland is just a slave of the West, so there's no point in glorifying its rise because people who are profiting from that rise the most are still the CEOs and board members of Western companies. Most of the Polish media and Polish mall chains are in Western hands and now also the Chinese are trying to enter Poland more aggressively. In terms of geopolitics, Poland is a complete slave of Washington, never doing anything on their own without Uncle Sam's approval. So yeah, Poland is better off now than it was 30 years ago but so is most of the world anyway. The same pattern applies to basically every European post-Soviet economy which became part of NATO & the EU.
I am a British person who moved to Poland. I wasn't the first and I won't be the last.
Witaj bracie
Good for you.
Unless you're working remotely for a UK salary, there is no chance living in Poland is better
@@Dzejman But rent is about 1/5, food and drink maybe half the price. Don't get me started on childcare... It's all relative.
I’m a Pole moving back from Belgium. It’s 100% comparable. Prices for everything are at least half time lower, so lower salary with lower taxes can give you the same. Healthcare is much better in Belgium, but it’s also not free. Having a business in Polands is much cheaper though. There are pros and cons in each country but it’s absolutely comparable.
Poles are fabulous people. History hasn’t been kind to Poland but through sheer hard work they are creating a wonderful future.
how to say you know shyt about poland without telling it :)
Poland needs to become a stable economic powerhouse in Europe. This stability contributes to the defence of Europe generally as adversaries become innovative and pressurize Europe economically and politically.
I think that it is slowly happening as the danger arises from the east. Trump's second term is scary but hopefully it will push Europe closer together
@@user-qk5mm1yw7y Let's hope Poland doesn't make common cause against the EU with Putin buddies like Viktor Orbán again.
@ettoreatalan8303 The Poles I've met despise Russia far, far more than Western Europe. The EU treats Poland as an increasingly important and contemporary trade partner, while Russia seems to regard them as inferior Slavic vassals that should be kowtowing to their Muscovite overlords.
@@bluecedar7914 Non-Slavs are regarded as subhumans in Russia, e.g., when apartments are only rented to Slavs. The fact that some Poles despise Western Europe at least a little should give Western Europe pause for thought.
Europe is pressurising itself economically, politically and socially
Life comes full circle. UK is now being colonized by their former colonies. 😂
Haha..Pakistanis 😅
@@chfarhanpawar399ali8 gradually re-entering the Middle Ages.
@@chfarhanpawar399ali8you reap what you sow
Oh, so naive you are, so naive.
What happens to the peoples of these nations when the host dies? All of those benefiting from the UK are doomed when that population can't support them anymore. UK's and it's population decline is fatal for the countries and other people than benefit from it. Serious lack of intelligence.
We are polish couple. We had to leave the UK. My partner god PTSD after fighting with system. It was modern slavery on workship visa as a home carer. Nobody helped us. She has studies, know language and has willing to work. People from Africa comes on boats and get free accomodation and diet, but my partner coudn't legally work there. That's riddiculous!! Lifestyle and people are lovely, but system sucks.
Sorry to see you leave. 🇬🇧 🇵🇱
They didn't want Poles, they'll get Africans instead. 🤭
I've lived in the UK for nearly 25 years but early this year I made the painful defision to move back to my home country of Italy.
The UK has been home to me and I always felt welcome but things have shifted since Brexit and I do not feel the same way anomore.
I've been lucky enough to work and befriend many Poles in my time in the UK and I can vouch for their high level of education and strong work ethic, something both British and Italians could learn from in spades!
And I am very happy to have now found a very good job for a Polish company that operates in the space of Artificial Intelligence! Once again testament to how well Poland is doing!
Onwards and upwords!
UK's tough situation is not making Poland stronger. Strong economic ties between the two would make us both richer. A Pole living in the UK.
It's because Poles are coming back to their motherland. Given that they were immigrants in the UK and economic stuation forced them to imigrate, it's natural that they want to come back to their country of origin now that situation has changed. So basically, it's not exactly like Poland is getting stronger, but rather it gains back what it has lost previously.
Strong economic ties have ended when the British public decided to leave EU. A Pole living in Poland.
@@martinpiekarski1512 also the fact that UK lotst it's manafacturing prowess and no more colonised countries like INDIA
@@martinpiekarski1512 i don't know any polish that are going back home. I work with loads. They all tell me that since the pandemic it has gotten even more expensive to live there.
in the short term it is actually, Poland is getting a lot of foreign investment and new businesses exactly because of Brexit.
My dear British friends, if we can create better living conditions for you at this moment, it is an honor for us. We have supported each other many times in the fight against challenges. For a long time, Poles were able to thrive in the United Kingdom, and now we are happy to welcome you here. Nothing lasts forever, but friendship is eternal.
Thank you Brexiteers !!!
I spent a few years working in London (AI engineer), paying 40% bracket tax, never using any of those 'legendary social benefits', and got attacked several times when cycling through bad neighborhoods. I'm in Warsaw now: a safe, clean city, with thriving businesses, and interesting high-tech jobs.
... and so many high-tech companies are moving out of the UK to EU countries, like Poland.
But you were not getting attacked by indigenous Brits were you?
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 True, but does that really matter to him? He still got attacked, and he still moved back to Poland. Giving back the AI engineering job to indigenous Brits for the same salary, I guess.
Why were you cycling through bad neighbourhoods? Let's not pretend that Warsaw or any other Polish city is 100% safe, there are rough areas everywhere. I also wouldn't call London a city with dying businesses...
@@webiorg6147 For example to get from Canary Wharf to Greenwich - I was attacked on East Ferry Rd. Not the worst neighborhood, but still it happened. I don't know any area in Warsaw I shouldn't cycle through for safety reasons, at least, as a relatively healthy 48-year-old male (I'm not talking about possible problems with traffic here - there's still a need for more bike lanes in Warsaw).
Poland has a long way to go, but there are very positive signs. I only wish them the best. Cheer's from America.
Indeed…
Cheers mate!!
Might Poland be better off than the US in certain respects?
Guys, where do you get these photos of Polish farmers with horse-drawn plows? I have lived in Poland for 43 years and I don't remember ever seeing anything like this in my life! In fact, Polish "Ursus" factory was among the top 10 largest tractor manufacturers in the world in the 70s and 80s (but it went bakrupt in 2003). That said, Poland is not going to be any superpower, because it's caught in the middle income trap, where salaries are too high to compete in low-tech sectors with Asian countries, but too low to attract top talents and develop high-tech industries. We have a "strong IT sector", but so does India - it's not about groundbreaking technology. There is no grand development plan on the part of the government either, the only good thing we got from them is relatively low taxes for enterpreneurs - or rather just enough loopholes to make tax optimization reasonably easy. But it may come to an end as we buy thousands of super expensive tanks and helicopters from overseas to eventually combat Russian kamikaze drones... Besides, our friends from Germany need cheap labor and subcontractors without associated social welfare costs (and now without subsidizing us via EU), so they will make sure that we stay at this exact level for a long time.
Mam 36 lat i sam prowadziłem tak konia,i pamiętam ta ciężką pracę konia.
Have you ever been to villages around Kielce and świętokrzyskie in general? I went there 15 and 20 years ago and it was a really unpleasant time travel.
I have seen farmers like that 20ish years ago. I stopped going to the countryside so I don't know how common the usage is in the current year.
Go to the southeastern parts of Poland...
mam tyle samo lat co ty ,pamiętam jak wozy z węglem jeżdziły po ulicach ,dokładnie jak w MIŚ
00:20 Correction: "Poland's economy is projected to become 10 times bigger." Your data shows both the past and the future in chart. However there's no guarantee that Poland's economy will grow between 2024-2029 in that rate. You are presenting your data as if that growth of Poland has already happened. Noone can predict the future, least of all the economists.
Well yeah, thats what "projection" means. Simply put it most likely wont look like this in the future, but if you draw that graph in Excel and put a trend line extending into the future it goes in that direction 😊
Poland will be one of top 5 power countries in Europe in next decade, surpassing Russia or Italy. Go Go Poland.
Genau. Ein Land fünften Ranges. Sehr richtig analysiert.
@@g.f.w.6402 salty german lmao
Being better off than Italy isn't that hard.
@@notusneo Swiss German, if you don't mind. 🤣
@@zedtrek 🤣😂
Insanely rich? Come on. Insanely rich as a population are countries like Norway, Switzerland, or citizens of Dubai.
Only the parasitic elite in those countries are in the clique. The big mass of citizens will never get their hands on hardly any of the money. They are just domestic animals on the plantation.
@@marktapley7571exactly, poland is not like sweeden and wont ever manage to be like it. Rich elites will just ger richer and thats it
idk, Norwegian inflation rn is outrageous from what i've heard
Maybe he though about insanely rich in Regards what we had in Poland in 1989. However in Basic term Poland is just getting close to EU average nothing extraordinary.
I've been to Poland a few times. Its so much better kept than the UK. I've never seen such clean streets and well maintained parks. Their public transport system & how you pay to ride it is really good
I find Scotland and Wales are really nice and tidy, whilst England (urban cities) are not.
I’d fully understand why those two Celtic nations are wanting to distance themselves from England. Poland has the right idea.
@RebelCity_ I take it you haven't seen Cardiff recently?
Unfortunately they seem to want to distance themselves by trying to out-woke each other, seeing who can implode first.
@@RebelCity_I live in Cardiff and my wife is polish so I’ve been a lot. Wales is nowhere near as clean and safe as Poland. Cardiff unless it’s nice area is a dirty with rubbish everywhere
The Uk economy has pretty much been flat for the last two decades. An inconsistent immigration policy, lack of decisive leadership and inability to form new trade deals post brexit have left it stymied.
Economic knowledge:
1.
The goods that the UK imports or exports can be found in only 10 countries outside Europe.
2.
That's why there are only these clown agreements. And it won't get much better for many years.
3.
In these climate times, transporting goods thousands of kilometres in a climate-damaging way instead of buying or selling them from/to your neighbour's doorstep is unbelievably braindead.
4.
No wonder 17.4 million Leave voters voted for this braindead bollocks.
Michael_from_EU-Germany,
retired Lecturer for national and international economics
Well the few trade deals the UK has made post Brexit have been really bad for us. And of course they have. We put ourselves in a weak position where we suddenly really needed more trade to replace what we lost with the EU, while other countries were quite happy with what they already had. Any deal made from a position of weakness like that is going to be a bad deal for the weaker party. The government was able to make some deals with smaller countries we don’t trade with much, so the downsides weren’t obvious to most people, and the press didn’t really talk about them either. But any deal with a big economy we trade with a lot would come with soo many very harsh downsides for the UK that ordinary people would inevitably find out about, and they would be totally unacceptable to normal people. Especially because all the people who voted Brexit were promised “they need us more than we need them” so wouldn’t understand why we were getting shafted. They would view any deal that didn’t have the UK come out on top as a result of incompetence or deliberate sabotage. And people who voted remain never wanted any of this in the first place and lots don’t understand why we can’t just rejoin the EU and go back to how things were. So making significant trade deals, with all the downsides to British industries, public services and sovereignty that would inevitably come with them would be political suicide atm. So we’re kinda stuck in a spot between expectation and reality
@@Sam-d8o6q I’d say even longer. The economy has been a bluff since the 70s. On the outside everyone appears wealthy. On the inside everyone has debt up to their eyeballs
@@WhichDoctor1 The UK should only go back into the EU if it can be a beneficiary instead of a contributor. Poland got this spot on.
@@WhichDoctor1 You missed the point, to trade with others you need to have something they need, Surely those countries don't need paper called money, they need food and energy all other things are not important, right now many countries are competing for the same minerals and the BRICS PLUS are taking over living others in behind, no longer taking things by force,
Countries that used to rely on 0 interest rates and the printing machine are in big trouble as Inflation is the boss that is why the Government is taxing instead of printing on top of all this those Gulf countries who used to park their money in British Banks are taking them out soon they get in and invest the profit in their countries
To be honest having worked in the UK engineering sphere when you get to the shop floor of manufacturing the Polish workers demonstrate aptitude that once British workers had in the 1960s. Suitably educated and totally dedicated. Apprenticeships for decades disappeared from the UK during the planned dis-industrialisation program of Investment in cheap overseas labour. It made a great amount of wealth for the banks which viewed our own manufacturing facilities as competition to their Chinese interests. Hence artificial forced decline and demoralisation of UK manufacturing. This program is ongoing.
It also doesn't improve UK's situation that their current government has decided to go full 1984 on their own people, further encouraging high-skill workers to leave the country.
Good point
10 years ago I was laughing at V for vendetta, now it doesn’t seem too distant 😂
That's good. I like Poland
People
no, we aren't getting rich. our prices are skyrocketing and cost of living is getting worse
This is the truth
Isn’t that happening everywhere
Do you expect prices to stay the same when salaries increase? Lol
That’s a world wide issue though. Everyone seems to be slightly poorer. Or people are slightly richer at the top end sucking the rest of us dry
@@littlefinger4509 the salaries do not increase at all, and even when the minimal payment is increased by the government then the prices increase way more (in %) than the salary.
What is making Poland a success, is the well educated, skilled and hard working population of Poland. It has nothing to do with the UK's decline. Well done Poland I wish you all the more success in the future.
@nickwinn7812 He just demonstrated how it's linked to Britain's decline; approximately 300,000 Poles returning home since 2017.
@@crose7412 No, he demonstrated nothing of the sort. They left a country in decline, to return to their homeland which is booming, and also post brexit, many of them feel unwelcome in Britain. Where is the evidence to support the claim that their departure either caused, or added to the decline of the UK? Confidently stating something as fact, does not make it a fact.
@@nickwinn7812 What reasons do you attribute to the UK's decline?
@@crose7412 1: The destruction of the manufacturing sector.
2: Lack of investment in skills training.
3: Lack of investment in R&D both for new products and production methods.
4: The cultivation of the idea that all manufacturing and agricultural work at all levels is low status.
5: Out-sourcing.
6: Generalised stupidity.
7: Brexit (a by-product of 6 above).
The above list is by no means comprehensive, but includes the most significant factors IMHO.
@@nickwinn7812 And the exodus of Poles doesn't even merit 1%?
Hi, im from poland. I stopped drinking. Thats how rich i am 😂
I'm starting to enjoy this new TH-cam trend of appreciating Poland.
Mass immigration from poorer nations is unsustainable. What happens when there are no more poor countries to exploit? And you've only delayed reforming your own labour market anyway.
Well we're leaving UK because it became a shit hole. Britain has changed from a nice country with values and culture where we could actually work, respecting it all, to a huge mess with a lot of problems, especially safety.
There's a huge difference between having EU migrants who went there to actually work and all the other who went there for free stuff, causing mayhem.
And trust me on this - we hate it and are sad seeing what has happened to the UK because of the stupid politicians! It angers us the same as it angers some of the native Brits! The worst part is that it's only gonna get worse. 10-20 years and UK is gonna turn into Englanistan which is just insane. So little people understand and see how fast middle easterns population grows. They get way more babies than native Brits and it wouldn't be bad if not the fact that most of those people, instead of accepting the rules and all Britain has to offer, they create their own like they are the rulers... Wtf
As a Brit who has lived in Poland a long time but returns to the UK regularly, I'm too often appalled and ashamed by the contrasting behaviours of people in the UK. Some Brits (like the gentleman above) put the blame on immigrants. I think they're deceiving themselves and need to be picked up by the scruff of the neck and made to look in the mirror at their own behaviour. For me, it is British folk (yes, white, indigenous, English, Welsh and Scottish folk and not immigrants) who are the problem. If you go to any public place in South East England you will find yourself deafened by loud-mouthed, often drunk, crowds of uncouth, over-confident and often aggressive Brits. Immigrants drink less, are more modest and seem harder working. This is a shock after Poland where people are more restrained, value their time and money more and seem harder working. Much of the British population (as opposed to the immigrant population) seem to think its their birthright to go out on the town several nights a week, take regular holidays, splash out on flashy cars, or that football ranks equal or higher than education, work, family or culture, Yes, I say the word culture knowing that some Brits will react - he's a privileged snob. Actually in Poland, a large percentage of the population goes to the theatre regularly, to concerts, to cinema etc. Poles also value their time and money and do not take their recently improved living standards for granted. They remember bare shelves, foreign occupation and a currency so weak that, even if they were allowed to travel anywhere, they couldn't afford anything. The Brits on the other hand still think they have an empire, and are "better" than foreigners. In this respect they're increasingly entitled and delusional.
Considering Poland has almost half the population of the UK this is really impressive.
UK is the next Haiti, mate.
Imagine Boris Johnson and David Cameron running Haiti. He would make them leave The Caribbean! 😂😂😂
🙏🏼
Except Haiti doesn't support Indonesian state terror like British Petroleum does in occupied West Papua.
That's because they let half of Hati in
That’s a stretch, London will always be there and it just takes 1 lucky factory to get the ball rolling
A German friend of mine in a high position moved to Poland 8 years ago. He should have only stayed for 3 years, but keeps extending his stay. He says that his family's standard of living is better than in Germany.
So it's not just the UK that has lost the edge.
For a country that sold out Poland to Stalin, no complaints please. I don't think whining about the British economy in 2024 is comparable to being occupied by the Red Army for 4 decades.
To be honest, by some historical irony, it's precisely the fact that Poland was under Stalin's influence which enabled it to have its modern borders and to be so homogeneous, unlike the Western European states.
@@martinledermann1862ironically that is true. As a repatriated Polish person. It is thanks to Hitler and Stalin that I have money from the UK to reinvest in this wonderful country. Because of the merciless persecution of minorities by the Nazis and the Soviets Poland is a homogeneous country with high levels of societal trust....
Polish people thank their red overlords for rebuilding the country every day
Poland was not sold out by Britain, Churchill was very vocal about it at the Yalta conference, is was Roosevelt who sold them out, Churchill wanted to have a War against the Soviets so get your fact right Kaaskop.
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 UK and France didn't meet their agreed obligations to help Poland in 1939.
The big issue is that the UK fails to train the doctors it needs.
This initially started under Blair when he put in quotas on training to save money. He also massively reduced hospital beds and introduced PFI funding.
The end result is a shortage of medical staff and hospitals we don’t own.
Meanwhile we have 9 million economically inactive, something not mentioned at all in this analysis.
And some "experts" are still pushing for embracing euro and abandon złoty. This is our safety cushion and we need to maintain it
Agree
I agree.
If Germany and now, Russia, could just leave the Poles alone, they will prosper well into this century.
Parts of Poland prospered while being in Prussia and Russia.
In the XIX century Lodz was called 'Polish Manchester'.
@@Dmitrij-nl3sc its happened because industrial revolution, not occupation
@dddominik8225 and because foreign powers didn't prevented development of Poland.
@@Dmitrij-nl3sc Russia and Germany have overrun Poland and murdered millions of Poles. See Katy massacre for one atrocity committed by the Russians.
@@Dmitrij-nl3sc Poland`s aging out and demographic decline are gonna be the end of prosperity. Poland still has a young enough population but it`s aging out faster than Germany.
Uk is not united anymore
Uk was always a pyramid from the right parts of London, where the aristocracy live it up, to the broke back waters of Scotland and N.Ireland.
Good London and home counties - bad london and outer london - southern england - northern england - wales - scotland - n.ireland.
money goes up. sht rolls down.
UK is Kurwa !
Ever was??
"U" means "Unbearable". 🤭
Never was mate
I'm sorry but I'm Polish and 2 minutes in I had to stop watching. It's hard to watch a video about your country and people from somebody, who seems to have knowledge not exceeding some sort of wikipedia summary or whatever were the sources....
Polish people just love to complain. Just watch it and be positive.
Użalaj się nad sobą dalej polaczku "jak to u nas źle"
I think you need to ask what created the huge dependency on foreign labour in the UK in the first place. This was a result of neo-liberalism and neo-classical economists using concepts such as comparative advantage and believing that a free labour market (and deregulated capiital and goods markets) would "lift all boats". They were wrong and that is not what happened. The policies they put forward ended up deindustrialising Britain while making a few people very rich. Britain has surplus labour and low productivity. Yet it relies on foreign trained labour. The reason is that capital relies on cheap foreign trained labour instead of training up their own. The low resulting low productivity of British labour is the real cause of Britain's decline
Yep
Poles and other foreign workers were adding more value (work => British profit) to the UK than they were sending home (pounds).
In the big picture, when you suddenly remove all that continuously added value (Poles & co. now moving out) from the country, the UK becomes poorer per total, as a country. That simple.
Since those working Poles moved back to Poland, the amount the UK got poorer is the amount by which Poland is now getting richer, if you don't count the many socioeconomic factors that make this not exactly accurate.
In theory, now the UK's remaining wealth should spread among the population, the British employers being forced to hire the natives (and pay them better for the same work, since that's the reason it was Poles, not Brits, who accepted to do those jobs before). That was exactly what the leave voters hoped, but obviously is not happening. Even if it happened like that, the employers would not accept narrower profit margins, and would pass the higher labor costs on to the products and services they offer, so to the customers. Brits as a nation would have more jobs and better wages, but everything would be more expensive, hence their purchasing power and quality of life would plummet worse than it was with the Poles propping up the system with their sweat and tears.
All this is theory, though. Even with the cheap labor having disappeared from the UK (Poles left) and the country becoming poorer for it, you bet that the rich will just find ways to squeeze the average Brit even more, so Brits will have it double as bad.
@@Constantinus213421 Poles are productive because of the legacy of the communist era vocational programmes. It invested in its workers. Productivity is low in Britain because there is not that investment. Immigration does not increase productivity (or GNP per capita) but increases the population size. While output increases, so does the population size, so no surprise. Basically people have to feel they have a stake in the production process and that their work is valued. Remarks from the elite like "foreigners do works British people won't do" is hypocritical and precisely the sort of the thing that led to Brexit. It is a social thing that cannot be understood with neo-classical economic theory. British workers have been disenpowered, disenfranchised. This, the reliance on immigration, is not how you run a successful economy. Also from a global perspective it is wrong: Britain should not free ride on other countries training and education schemes. The fact we are getting doctors now from countries with scarcer resources than Britain is of course even worse.
Germany is headed toward the same economic suicide. Germans don't even know how to perform services, much less build an economy around it!
Government ruins everything. We have the opposite of a free market in the UK. Next to impossible to set up a small business with all of the unnecessary regulations and the government breathing down your neck.
you ignored the elephant in the room in your analysis, that Poland has a demographic problem.
Who doesn't tho
Polska to jedyny kraj który rozwija inne gospodarki plus ekstremalnie rozwija swoją .Teraz wyobraźmy sobie że wszyscy Polacy by wrócili do Domu . Nie zapomnimy że Polska została całkowicie zniszczona Podczas 2 wojny światowej. Zdradzona przez ,, Przyjacieli z zachodu " . I oddana w Komunizm na 40 lat bez możliwości rozwoju. Mimo to Powstają takie Filmy jak ten . Niecha żyje Polska . Cześć i chwała Bochaterom !!!!
This is all good when you have a salary like in the UK, but live in Poland. But when you live in Poland you have a Polish salary (x2.3 times lower than British salary)
with your math skills no wonder you don't earn enough, how x2.3 can be lower dummy?
But the worst is when you have Polish salary and life in GB
@@darek2838depends where you live
Let's make both obscenely rich. I'm Polish and i wish Brits, English, Scots, Welsh, Irish all the best.
Same
Thank you 🇬🇧
Not English though?
@@Mersey_basileus The English too!
@@fiaskolo it's a common mistake. 👍
Im an English plumber and have worked with hundreds of different tradesmen from around Europe.
Unpopular opinion here but I think a lot of the English people need to rise up and become better workers
Because I have worked with too many idiots that just don’t care about doing a good quality job.
Worked with plenty of Eastern Europeans that that are very good workers and decent respectful people.
When one country is getting rich at expense of another. Nothing to celebrate.
Not targeting Poland or UK but if a country simply gets wealthy from wealth extraction and not wealth creation it is rarely long lasting
That's such a mature take.
I love the:
> "in the last 30 years"
> *shows data from 2029*
You underestimate what the UK is currently doing.
In my opinion Poland is a safe country. There are no issues such "you shouldn't go there or there", noone is afraid of going out even in the middle of the night. But on the other hand - GDP growth doesn't tell the whole story. Vast majority of polish ppl earns around minimal wage (which is less than 1000 pounds).
Making Poland insanely rich? Dude, NFZ is bankrupt. I literally can't even get to the doctor. Extreme poverty is reaching all-time high right now. I just can't fucking see that
This video is mostly anti-british propaganda. These video creators do not know, that sometimes in Poland, you have to wait 2-3 years to be able to get an appointment to some specific doctor via NFZ, and if the employer does not provide private Scanmed/Luxmed insurance you are forced to pay a lot of money. And when the median salary equals 6500 PLN Gross that becomes extremely challenging for the majority of Polish population.
@@enjooooyit Luxmed is shit, too. Even tho I have insurance (through my mom's work) there I still have to wait 3 months for a visit.
You are exaggerating, compared to other countries they have free treatment for the most serious diseases.
@Zielony_Ork3 who are "they"?
@@Zielony_Ork3In Poland right now you wait 1 year for something as simple as an eye exam.
As a pole living in the uk I actually don't care that much about the economy.
What I don't like is what the government is doing with freedom of speech, and how its treating even its native citizens, I came before brexit and I dismissed it as some silly political stunt which won't actually go thru, but it did...
I moved to Poland 24 years ago from England, and it was the best thing I've ever done.
Im glad you like it here
Don't worry, I'm sure the UK will always be attractive for the countless boat migrants.
its not, only 25% of London is Asian that's barely any, and most people have British Citizenship anyway
5:14 The reparations from defeated Germany went collectively to Soviets, who were to distribute it among countries under it's communist reign. Out of all the total funds received by USSR, around 1/8th was agreed to be reserved and aimed for Poles, but finally less than 0,5% reached their recipient.
i don't think this true eastern european workforce in UK tended to be lower skilled than UK average because well educated qualified Poles tend to prefer staying in Poland it's normal for people to prefer their own country
I've been living in the UK for the past 10 years
2016-2020 was ok, not everyone could be making a lot of money but it would be enough. Past covid, what was once a high wage is the new just about wage and I don't even know how people on minimum wage survive especially in London
I myself will be leaving the UK in the next couple of years
Mamy w Polsce takie przysłowie: " zanim gruby schudnie, chudy umrze". Także Wielka Brytania ma jeszcze sporo tłuszczu. 😂😅
Rich? How am I supposed to be rich when in my city I don't have any job perspectives better than warehouse? Where I could earn less than 1000€(about 815€ without overtime in 2025). My depression to live without work for about 2 months reached its peak. While I have some experience, a job without connections is impossible. I consider to work aboard again. I don't care about the country while I could not even consider buying a car or travelling around. I can save up some cash because I'm alone. This is my frustration and depression. I don't have any reason and luck to find myself and live while working at the place where I could earn and fulfil my abitions. Well the cost of living is a huge problem. Imagine working and earning less than 1000€ while food, energy, and water costs are rising while you are alone. In my city room costs about 185 € so from 815€ if you are working about 160 hours a month it's a huge cost. The rent of the whole flat is about 464 € so yup, good luck with that. I really can't see any perspetives. I could educate, but I lost about 90% of my interests. I don't know what to do in my life. Sitting and watching youtube is not productive. I'm losing time again. While I can't find anything that could give me joy. As always, I will adapt and find something, but I can't think about my happiness in the future. Suicide is dumb thing to do anyway, so I exist without reason on this year. Well, my social skills are also lost. Eh enough propably I will call tomorrow to work agency or something and adapt to my formless life without a plan and a reason besides my working experience in many places. Why did I even write that? It's a whim...
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Bro i returned from the Netherlands to Bulgaria and make almost the same amount of money,but now i strive for better job opportunities.
Berlinki sausages are becoming hard to find in the UK.
Click bait and propaganda. "Insanely rich"? Don't think so. Costs of living are almost the same as UK (except for costs of accomodation), and wages are still 2-3 times lower than UK. Saying this as a Pole, that lived in UK for 7 years.
I heard a lot about how bad it was with poles that took brits jobs, before brexit, now that problem is solved, just get poorer than poland, then they go home, problem solved.
The most important part of this "genius plan" is to replace skilled migrants from eastern europe who work and contribute to the economy with illegals from middle east etc, who don't work, get goverment housing and benefits and are a burden to the economy.
Poland is not poor and never was, after the fall of communism there was a shortage of goods but the people were not poor in any sense of the word, but I was born in 1965 and my dad was the in army and Britain was poorer believe me, we had almost FA and it only really got better mid nineties and the prosperity was short lived. We Brits didn't have the oppurtunity to just run away and offer ourselves up as cheap labour and instantly better our lives, we had to stick at it and make the country better but of course when it was good times let everybody in to steal it from under our noses. Now the Poles being the Rats they are, are deserting the sinking ship. I speak fluent Polish and have close contact with Poles for more than 30 years and know the mindset. Reading your post make me think you are not in the UK, how many Poles do you know in your native country that have bothered to learn the language?
This is all about investing in EDUCATION. while allowing a free market to boom. Rich countries think that they will get migrants to do the hard work, but there is no mechanic or a chemist to lead them.
Refutation:
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The majority of more than 1 million Syrians who fled to Germany in 2015 and 2016 are now in employment.
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Over 70 per cent work at specialist level
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany I find this hard to believe. Sources?
Education is free in Europe, why exactly would they lack engineers?
@@Constantinus213421
Additional Information
A recent study by the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), which is part of the Federal Employment Agency, also shows that more than half of those who arrived in 2015 are in employment. For those who have been here a year longer, the figure is 62 per cent. By comparison, the employment rate in Germany as a whole is around 76 per cent.
The majority works at the level of a specialist
"One of the astonishing findings is that 70 per cent of people work at least at skilled worker level or above," says the head of the IAB study, Professor Herbert Brücker. Of these, four per cent are academics and six per cent work in complex technical professions. This is astonishing, as only around 30 per cent had studied or completed vocational training when they arrived.
"That has improved in the meantime. A further 30 per cent have studied, trained or attended school in Germany."
To be fair it's a gamble.
Many, many people in Poland emigrated just after finishing studies. So exact moment the state stops funding the person and the person starts funding the state.
On the surface it sounds terrible, but yeah, it was pretty wise as PL had (and have) really good ratio of skill/cost workforce. Which ramped up that investment.
Sincerely, a Polish uni student
It's not that wonderful in the Polish healthcare sector, not enough doctors, not enough nurses, not enough funds - they are trying to fill the gaps with Ukrainians while the population is ageing and decreasing (demands growing).
Polish doctors are the world's finest: unlike most (or coming) in/into the West who enter the profession with degrees from 3rd rate institutions and 3d world standards..
@@dol3980 Due to the different standards, their diplomas actually have to be authenticated and they have to retake the exams - that is the procedure. The problem is rather with the language, as people can fake their certificates.
As a medical practitioner dealing with eyesight problems in Poland, i can confirm.
It is unfortunate that you have to wait over a year to get something as simple as a normal eye exam as part of your free healthcare, and when you do, it is usually done quickly, poorly and you need to confirm it in the private sector anyway, because professionals can't consider it reliable.
And better yet, the government provides you with a huge 36pln discount on your 1000 PLN glasses.
@@dol3980 hahaha polish doctors very narcist I would say one of the WORST
@@pau1976 Why have public eye exams when you have to wait so long for them and they are not reliable anyway?
As an occupational therapist, I returned to Poland in 2014. I now earn 1.5 times more than I did in Ireland, where salaries are considered good, and my living costs in Poland are 2.5 times lower. The streets are clean, it’s safe at night, and returning was the best decision of my life.
I think that this clip is oversimplified, and based more on emotions than the facts. Let’s take those 400,000 Poles who left the UK after the Brexit. I don’t see them moving back to Poland, a lot of them moved to other Western European countries. But, for example, two of my cousins still stay and work in England. Next, the author presented highly skilled Poles moving back to Poland as those driving the economy. No, I do not see them as a major or even minor factor driving the Poland economical growth. I would say those, who stayed in Poland, are folks who have built the country.
Next, yes, the current success of Poland is on the shoulders of the current 40-60 years old citizens. But the younger generation is as spoiled as their counterparts in the West. With them entering job market with high expectations and low commitments Poland is losing its competitive edge of the success-hungry hard-working generations who remember socialism times.
We need to add the fact of noticeable migration to Poland of those who retired in the UK and other wealthier European countries spending their money in Poland while enjoying the safer environment. And who as well drive real estate and rental prices to the level difficult for average Polish citizen to effort.
And I could continue, but the fact is that authors picked a few simple facts to build the narrative on, but without digging deeper before jumping to conclusions.
The GDP numbers grow does not mean people became richer.
But there is big correlation
Poland has a pretty good GINI (economical equality) index, so in our case yes, it does fortunately
@@juliuszkocinski7478 In Poland almost a half of the working population work for minimal wage (number is tripled in past 5 years). In Germany the minimum wage is 2 times higher than in Poland.
At the same time the prices in Poland and Germany are the same. So I am not sure why this video promotes Poland because I can clearly see that the author didn't even analyze the life of the locals. Just abstract GDP or GENI or other tells you nothing about real life
That is right but show tendency, show that industry grow up
Pride and arrogance have led to the downfall of many empires. As it turns out, Germany has the same problem-they are so proud of their industry that they are starting to lose. Meanwhile, the countries of Eastern Europe, which were devastated by the West for centuries, are slowly becoming a rising power. Not only do they have strong competencies, but they are also hardworking and creative. Moreover, in countries like Poland, you can walk the streets safely even at night because there are no terrorists.
So after 2030 Brits can start coming to Poland, after they receive a proper visa to pick up strawberries.
I’ll be picking berries and doing jobs Polish people don’t want to do, most of us English will be low-skilled compared to Polish
We only want your women 😛😂👍
That's bullshit... The level of poverty and robbery in terms of taxes is still really rubbish in Poland... Minimal wage is nowhere near this living cost
Polands gdp/capita in (ppp) purchase power parity is at 52000$ now. Japans is just lil above with its 54000$. Germanys is about 73000$. What i want to say is, that poland counts as a pretty rich country now beeing very very very far above the international level. Poland continues growing and growing without destroying their currency due to too many debts. Capitalism is lowered the poverty rate extreme and will keep going. Same happeing to vietnam rn but at a far lower level. But slowly more and more countries follow the recipe of free markets. Sadly in my home country germany it goes the other way round...
since they own nothing in their own country it's the wages that matter more than the GDP
As an Italian, living in the UK, who has family in Poland. I can tell you, that the UK is finished. It is still a great country in some aspects, our welfare system is still one of the best (which actually creates other issues but anyway) and Natural disasters are few and far between, but, apart from that, nothing saves it. Having visited my family in Poland, the economic increase it is witnessing is unprecedented, in such a short space of time to grow so much is unheard of. Poland is clean, developed, hard working and safe. It has not subscribed to the Open Borders Policy of letting everyone and anyone in, and it has focused on attracting back its expats and reversing the brain drain it suffered in the early 2000’s. That’s one key difference between Poland and the UK. Their government cares about their people. The other key difference is that the people care about the country. Polish people are very Proud and Patriotic due to the horrors that have happened in their country throughout history, which means that resilience, pride and work ethic is engrained into Polish People. Higher work ethic = higher productivity and also means that Poles are incentivised to better their own country. Instead the British mindset is a pessimistic, negative, narcissistic mind set of “everything’s shite” “I’m leaving” and if you show any ounce of patriotism you are considered “right wing”. This emphasises that British people have lost hope and don’t care to improve the state of things here as there is a shared mindset that we are too far gone. Also, the focus by Educative bodies and the Government on culture wars rather than important issues, has steered policy away from improving the economy and has also stigmatised and alienated sections of society on all sides, meaning that the UK now has deep rooted social issues. What started as a anti-racist/decolonisation rhetoric that meant well, has actually led to those very problems becoming worse as the British people and political parties look for a scapegoat for their own problems. Britain’s biggest issue, in my opinion, is distraction politics. As mentioned before, one of the main narratives in British Society and Politica at the moment is Anti Immigration. Though it is true that the Open Borders Policy has deepened social and economic divide, it is not the whole story. The government is actually to blame for the wider picture. However, as all political parties do, Anti-Immigration has become a very big scapegoat in this country for our real issues. As a result, policy focuses on pointless, petty culture wars and the real focus of the issues becomes lost. However, the British people are also to blame. I have never seen a population more zombie-like and stagnant as the British. I think this is a deep rooted cultural thing as the British “stiff upper lip” is certainly true. You just get on with it here. People complain and moan constantly but don’t do anything about here. Most other countries by now would have had a revolution, justifiably so. However, in Britain there is a lack of organisation on a local level from pressure groups and activist groups and more importantly, there is a lack of unity amongst the population which has been purposely inflicted by political parties to keep people divided so that we don’t unite to fight one common enemy. It is text book authoritarianism and divide and conquer. Ironic that the British Government are now using their own Colonisation tactics on their own people. I think British people lack unity, hope and Optimism and therefore a mass fight back has not been able to come to fruition. In recent times, we have seen more protests from different sectors of society but they are still very much based on bi-partisan issues and often actually miss the real point and focus. This coupled with the fact that the UK government has now become akin to Russia or China’s in silencing narratives and groups that they don’t like, means that any sort of uprising from the population has become almost impossible. The UK is in trouble and though all of Western Europe is in rough seas at the moment, as someone who is well travelled and has first hand experience of Italy, Britain and Polands economy, trust me when I say the UK is the worst of them all. Economically, Socially and Politically this country is too far gone unless the British People manage to overcome all these hurdles somehow and force a change (and no, voting for a different political party to the one that shafted you previously is not going to work, just like it didn’t the last time, im talking about a complete overhaul of the system and a revolution) but unfortunately, I truly and sadly believe the British people and British Society does not have it in them to do this. It is a country that is beautiful, has so much potential and great people, being spoilt by a select few, who have everyone wrapped round their little fingers. Personally, get out now whilst you still can because honestly would not surprise me if the British Government make leaving the country illegal at some point wih the way they are acting at the moment. Oh also before I forget, regulation is also one of Britain’s downfalls. It is perhaps one of the most over regulated countries on earth. Regulation at a basic level is good, increases safety and decreases exploitation, but when it becomes excessive like here in the UK you suppress economic growth, by presenting too many obstacles for new buisnesses thus creating an unnatractive buisness environment and you slow the whole economy down. Over regulation means more hurdles, more paperwork, more oversight which ultimately reduces productivity and is responsible for half the reason as to why every service in the UK from NHS waiting lists to driving tests is backlogged at the moment. Deregulate slightly, and you will find the economy frees itself up and becomes more fluid, and cash flow then follows. Think of it like a circuit, the economy moves quicker which means the cash flows quicker through the circuit which means you get more money passing through. It is simple economics really and this comes from someone who has never studied economics, you don’t need to be a genius to figure this stuff out which leads me to truly believe that the governments of this country have an external agenda they are adhearing to. Not to mention the way that the UK has one of the most rigid social class structures in the world. Though the Uk is not officially feudalist, underneath it still very much operates as a feudalist system, with a large class divide and little to no social mobility. The reason for this? Well let’s take the NHS For example. There is currently a lack of skilled workers in the NHS. One reason? Well since Brexit the Uk has come a less attractive destination for skilled foreign doctors who upon we which we relied on for a lot of our skilled labour prior to brexit. The other reason? Well for starters if you have to rely on foreign labour to fill positions in the British Job market then that means as a government you haven’t done enough to train and attract British workers to that field. In the case of the NHS, Nurses in particular are overworked and underpaid, thus deattracting people from the role. Secondly, to become a nurse it takes years of disrupted overpriced education, again, an unattractive proposition. See what I am trying to say? So many industries in the UK contain too many obstacles prior to entering that industry for British people, whether that be financial or social obstacles, making key job roles that the economy relies on for growth and function like Nurses, Lorry Drivers and Driving Examiners unattractive. Now that the UK has almost closed its borders to skilled foreign labour and opened it to unskilled foreign labour, these decades long issues are coming to fruition. We are importing more people reliant on the state, and exporting more people contributing to the state, whilst not promoting home grown skill and talent in order to take the place of exported foreign talent.
Yep. Just about hits every nail on the head I'd say. Thanks for your view - Might even copy this comment and save it somewhere
"Their government cares about their people" what a revolutionary concept for those of us stuck here!!
@@UnimportantAcc They have also done very nicely from EU handouts over the years, so I guess EU is good for some, at the expense of others.
@ go for it share it wherever you like, I believe I’ve summed up the state of things pretty well but I could’ve gone on for ages
Totally agree, well said.
@@daddy9267 Yes, we used the funds well, didn't squander them.
From 2014-2018 EU🇪🇺 founds given to Poland🇵🇱 minus money that Poland needed to give to EU🇪🇺 were just about 2% of gdp per year...
From 2004-2023 it was about 1% of gdp per year...
Do you think that 2-1% of gdp is little?
@pendiro Yes, because in addition to that, there is a LOT of regulations that destroy Polish industry and farming, and the mining sector. Those 1-2% are often use for, in fact, consumption, not real investments...
@pendiro It is not even one new car per capita per 20 years...
Also GDP growth rates, they are similar to the times before the EU.
@pendiro Furtherermore some of those "founds" are credits in fact...
I recently moved back to Poland at the age of 21 after spending 17 years in the UK. The main reason for my move is that I have a remote job with a good income. In my experience, the quality of life in Poland is much better than in the UK. That said, if I had to return and work for £1,000 a month, I probably wouldn’t have made the move.
Germany was top destination in Europe why everyone says in UK?? Get your facts straight! 1st destination is USA , 2nd is Germany 3rd is UK!
It was and definitely is the still the Swiss
@ Germany had 2.2 million of poles as of 2024 , UK 682 k, Switzerland 120k dude!
@@janmes2315 By what measure is it the Swiss?!
@@Nick-io9uk go away bot:
You're completely missing the point. The UK was the number 1 spot for Poles after Poland joined EU because it was the first country to open it's borders with good job offers for Poles. Germany had many Poles already while the UK only had whoever remained there after WW2. Does Germany have overal more Poles? Yes, by a long shot (however it's not on the 2nd place, Brazil is 2nd), but more Poles moved to the UK after joining the EU and the 'Polonia' population growth in the UK was bigger than in Germany.
We are not rich yet there is still high inflation level
Polish people came to England because of English language, just like most immigrants, however people from central and eastern Europe have been treated in UK as a lover class Europeans and faced constant direct discrimination by association to the history of English people, migrants from British colonies targeted eastern and central European countries to take advantage of welfare systems and to mix with Europeans for papers, to abuse people who have never had anything to do with British empire, so joining EU had a lot of negative consequences for people from Poland and eastern/central Europe.
Yeah, insanely rich, what a bullshit. Prices like in the west but 1/4-1/2 of western wages. Most expensive credits and properities. Biggest energy taxes because of UE CO2 biznes
It's not true man. I am from Poland. Who makes this propaganda?
Poland is not as good as UK right now but Poland has better growth, that's what the video is about
@pf-edits growth yes but still long way to go.
I dont know but these are clearly very ignorant people who get their knowledge from hearsays.
@@roberttwardowski9711 you have an access to some secret knowledge? 😂
Oh hey, we're rich?
Can i build my own home for middle class income yet like my father did when he was my age?
I can't?
I'm 3 years older than he was when he started building his 3 stories house?
Cool....
Poland is not getting "rich" guys
Sure we cam buy a filling meal for pittance and cook it for even less
And that's about it
The 1% gets rich, our wages don't increase.
Poland was smart not adopting the Euro.
By not doing "hostile people welcome", but also we didn't colonize, so they don't hate us so much
Absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Estonia and Slovenia use the euro for many years now. MUCH richer places than Poland. Lithuania also uses the euro and it's a country that grew FASTER than Poland for many years now. To the point that Lithuania now got same salaries like Poland while having MUUUCH higher GDP per capita than Poland. Also Croatia uses the euro and it's a country that now got basically the same salaries like Poland and also Croatia now got the SAME GDP per capita like Poland. Euro DOES NOT prevent any country from growing.
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Lithuania mentioned
Aaaaaaaaaaa 🎉
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Lithuania has a population of 3 million people, Slovenia 2 million people, Poland has a population of 36 million people, those are quite different countries and should be analyzed differently.
@@kk-cr4db Yes agreed. What about Spain then? It's growing fast for years and is using euro from the start and it's a country with minimum of 45 million people. Currently Spain got close to 2000 euros of the average monthly net salary and is still waaaaay bigger economy than Poland , both nominal and PPP.
P.S. Poland got minimum of 40 million people.
British in Poland, minimum wage in Poland is 600 fucking pounds good luck in Poland other thing you need to speak Polish that's not easy , economy grows but that's is just for big company ,Poland is just for rich people and big companies. You need work hard to get good money that's why English like Polish people for hard word .
We love your women too ☺️👍
I spent few weeks in Poland during my trip from Australia to UK. Poland is not "Australia" yet, but demise of Europe and UK is apparent when comparing to Poland. It's not all about money, banks etc. Poland is a country with strong, healthy families, with well educated people. With future...
Government does not cut investments it does not invest. Government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs and Businesses do, government either stands in a way or not.
Uh, government bureaucrats do work you know? The reason why governments in the Middle East are bloated and extremely bureaucratic is because people here in the Middle East think the government exists to give them cushy jobs, though here in Iraq people have now developed an entrepreneurial mindset thankfully.
Excuse... what?
Investing in infrastructure, roads, trains, energy...
Government like any other capitalist on the market, can buy, sell, invest etc.
Only difference is that government is not just an actor on the market, it is also the house of the market.
As such it actually has more to say than majority of actors...
Yes they do it's called national company or state own company so yeah they do make investments, where do you think roads are built from businesses not it's from the government of course
Kennedy would like to disagree
And I don't think that it was like people in USSR didn't have any jobs
It may look like that on macro level, but once you're boots on ground in Poland, things aren't so rosy for your average Janek.
Source: I'm a Pole 🇵🇱
Good joke😂 i am living in Poland. Believe me, it is far away from prosperous country. It is still good place to live though, but it is not nearby UK😂
ok biedak
@@kause-z5pMaking fun of poor people? Classy af.
To zbyt daleko w swych wnioskach idące prognozy.Oczywiście może się towydarzyć,jednak muszą jeszcze zaistnieć sprzyjające warunki,a nie tylko wyciąganie wniosków na podstawie hossy,która ma miejsce obecnie w Polsce.
Pamietajmy ze duzo kasy Polski idzie na wsparcie 🇺🇦. Wieksze przychody nie musza oznaczac ze mamy wiecej pieniedzy bo mamy mase wydatkow. Bogaci sa niemcy I bruksela (bruk cwela).
The video claims there are a shortage innthe UK of 100,000 Truck drivers …?
I have driven Trucks for 20 years and can tell you this is crap.
There are over 80,000 UK residents with a hgv Licence that do not use them.
New passed Licence holders cannot get jobs as the Insurance require at least 2 years experience . ,……this claim is bogus
The USA looked at the disaster of brexit and said 'let's try a second time'
I found funny how mamy videos i see with "Poland is next superpower" becose big part of mine family and other pepole say Poland sucks and they gona move out
polish people often hates their own country, it's our nature lol
I realized a few days ago that people from most countries indeed have no diversification in industries. I was born in 2000 and it just hit me, that I am used to having any source of anything locally. Food? Made locally. Chemicals? Made locally. Sweets? Made locally. Clothes? (mostly) Made locally. We often buy franchises, yet I am just starting to notice that other people around the globe have to seek original sources of some good outside the country. And I remember no such need
UK rejects it's capitalist prosperity in favor of socialist poverty, while Poland remembers it's socialist poverty and is embracing it's capitalist prosperity.
Very telling!
nice sentence Gb imagined that you can live off capital forever