Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
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Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#2Oh no - what if the line doesn't go up? The line. It has to go up. It has to. We'll do anything - any-thing. Please. Oh please. Just let the line go up!
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#3> Poland - should it maintain its 3.6% average annual growth
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#4Does it matter if Poland overtakes Britain, if both our populations are able to survive and prosper? The phrasing has a racist and geopolitical element to it, which superceeds the issues around UK government's lack of investment in R&D and destruction of the welfare state. This is not a zero sum game.
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#5The numbers the article quotes are not the current US dollar GDP, but PPP (i.e. GDP adjusted to local prices) per capita. The 2021 current US dollar GDP numbers are rather far appart:
UK $47,334.36
Poland $17,840.92
Romania $14,861.91
Hungary $18,772.67
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_cur...
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_PPP...
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#6The numbers the article quotes are not the current US dollar GDP, but PPP (i.e. GDP adjusted to local prices) per capita. The 2021 current US dollar GDP numbers are rather far appart: UK $47,334.36 Poland $17,840.92 Romania $14,861.91 Hungary $18,772.67 Source: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_cur... https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_PPP...
PPP isnt static either. Youd expect as a country becomes more developed the purchasing power gets less as less as coet of living goes up.
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#7As a Pole I must say it’s entertaining. They obviously have no idea about our government preferences and aging population. And so much more.
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#8Labour campaigned and voted against Brexit shouting this would happen. "Project Fear" as it was called. But now they pretend like Brexit has nothing to do with it... it's just the torries fault apparently.
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#9Does it matter if Poland overtakes Britain, if both our populations are able to survive and prosper? The phrasing has a racist and geopolitical element to it, which superceeds the issues around UK government's lack of investment in R&D and destruction of the welfare state. This is not a zero sum game.
Poles used to come to England to do lower level jobs, pick fruit, clean houses. Definitely racism and resentment here. Old school European racism sees Eastern Europeans as a lower level white, a concept I don’t think a lot of Americans are familiar with. There were white slaves back in the day too. It’s where the word comes from; the Slavic people.
Re: Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
#10Does it matter if Poland overtakes Britain, if both our populations are able to survive and prosper? The phrasing has a racist and geopolitical element to it, which superceeds the issues around UK government's lack of investment in R&D and destruction of the welfare state. This is not a zero sum game.
Poles used to come to England to do lower level jobs, pick fruit, clean houses. Definitely racism and resentment here. Old school European racism sees Eastern Europeans as a lower level white, a concept I don’t think a lot of Americans are familiar with. There were white slaves back in the day too. It’s where the word comes from; the Slavic people.
No that is not where the word comes from. Slav is an English-ization of “slowanie” (what slavs call their group) which means “people of the word “ or people who can talk or something along those lines.