Come i prezzi delle uova sono diventati il ​​simbolo del successo della Polonia alla libertà

“Today, Poland is heralded as the success story of the Soviet Bloc’s transition from communism to capitalism. Gross domestic product per capita went from an inflation-adjusted $1,731 in 1990 to $22,056 in 2023, according to the World Bank.

The price of eggs, meanwhile, continues to be a bellwether of capitalism’s performance, not just in Poland, but in the U.S. as well.”

> Focusing on eggs turned out to be the right call.

Generally yeah, what we’ve achieved between 1990 and 2025 is an insane success story. Also thanks to the European Union and NATO. We’ve worked hard, our alliances proved to be great, and even the years of populist right-wing PiS government didn’t stop this streak in the end, even though they harmed us tremendously, both internally and externally.

But this isn’t the full picture and focusing solely on eggs wasn’t the right call. The capitalist reforms of the 90s, while obviously necessary, harmed not only a lot of people, but entire regions. Thousands of families ended up in poverty and misery, and what’s more important a vicious circle from which there’s hardly any escape; Balcerowicz’s ultra-liberalism nowadays isn’t appealing even to the very rich, it’s just too radical.

Polish transformation has an ugly side that’s visible to this day, especially in those rural, very conservative regions. Some things started to change (very poor Eastern Poland nowadays has better roads than most of the country, etc. etc.), but not fast enough. People turned to conservatism and far-right and this could’ve been avoided, but centrist politicians prefered to be arrogant and think in short-term elections only. The current housing crisis, while obviously visible in the entire Western world, not only Poland, also could’ve been managed before.

So yeah, while in general I’m extremely happy with what my country has become, this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be critical at all: many things were fucked up, remain so to this day, and we should seriously fight to improve them.

Please do not make such comparisons. Poland has great history but it’s torn by many eastern viruses. We’re a great nation, we keep our heads up, we love freedom and independence…. But there’s big but. Poland is a wonderful country for intelligent people, for reckless ones, for brutal ones, for Entrepreneur ones. It’s just terrible for regular folks. 17th century slavery patterns rise again and this is a really interesting time for this country. Unfortunately social darwinism is going to win, so we’re going to observe yet again growth, but it’s going to be bitter sweet for all of our low income friends.

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