but capitalism with a human face -- not a dog-eat-dog society, cut-throat competiton, the mindless ratrace and de-humanised hyper-commerialisaiton of ever field of human endavour.
Sorry, but you can't simply have your cake and eat it.
Poland wanted capitalism and has had to play catch up.
If they'd chosen the softly softly approach then they'd have gone with the Russian approach to changing over, and look where that has brought those poor f!ckers.
That should be a kind of third road with room for higher things, a cultural mission, human interaction (being destroyed today by mega-gadgetarianism) and spiritual values.
That's your interpretation. I certainly wouldn't want to live in an economy where things like what you've listed are allowed to dictate market prices. Demand and supply baby, that's how it works.
Increasingly females want to first complete their education, start a career and often put child-bearing off to the biological limits of mid to late 30s
Good, good, last bit is nonsense. Please, try and prove your 'learned' opinion regarding this. And with proper medical journals, not crappy Polish far right websites which you tend to rely on.
How they run the mines from then on would be their responsibility
You're into syndicalism Delph? Poor auld James Connolly was a Scot like yourself and his plan was for it to take hold in the Irish Republic had the failed 1916 Rising been successful.
Shouldn't the educators of society be convincingly showing people there is more to life than "spożywać i wydalać" (consume and excrete)
There is a lot more to life than that, if that's all you are experiencing then you're living your life the wrong way. But by the same token, if people do want to live that way then who are you to judge. Let people be happy and let them choose their own path.
Atch
Excellent post :)
In Poland, kids learn to write and read at later age and I have met several language teachers who had a hard time to teach them...
I remember I had to teach a group of 6 year olds once....long story short, asked them to get out their copy books to write and the teacher told me they couldn't write, to wich I said....'oh **** are these disabled kids coz I haven't prepared something appropriate if they are' She says 'no, in Poland you learn to read when you're 7.' To which I laughed...and she looked at me like I had 3 heads ;)
I didn't bother teaching there again.