wawa_marek
30 May 2012
Life / A new Poland's war - the poor vs the rich [81]
Quarter century ago most of people in Poland have similar income, no matter if someone was an engineer or a plumber. There were mostly no large scale private companies in the market. Most of the population were employees at state owned institutions. Teachers, lawyers, drivers, workers were living in same houses. After 1989 things changed rapidly. Everybody could run their own business, the Warsaw Stock Exchange started, some people used credits to buy the companies they were employed in. Some people started to increase their property 1000% yearly. A new class of millionaires established. Some of them educated at entry level, some of them with university degree. Others were doing nothing - just waiting - these are still poor. They had their chance anyway.
In Poland the poor are so used to getting proverbially shafted up the rear they just take it, but wheres the cut off point? at what point will they say enough is enough?
Quarter century ago most of people in Poland have similar income, no matter if someone was an engineer or a plumber. There were mostly no large scale private companies in the market. Most of the population were employees at state owned institutions. Teachers, lawyers, drivers, workers were living in same houses. After 1989 things changed rapidly. Everybody could run their own business, the Warsaw Stock Exchange started, some people used credits to buy the companies they were employed in. Some people started to increase their property 1000% yearly. A new class of millionaires established. Some of them educated at entry level, some of them with university degree. Others were doing nothing - just waiting - these are still poor. They had their chance anyway.