| ▲ | greenavocado 4 hours ago |
| Poland, but its on borrowed time due to the extreme fertility crisis. |
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| ▲ | eigenspace 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Lol, what on earth makes you single out Poland as the single western country not in decay right now? |
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| ▲ | sam_lowry_ 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Its economy has been growing for 30 years non-stop, to the point that it is now compared to Singapore. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Economic growth is not the kind that's being referred to. I think Germany is also economically growing? It doesn't matter, they are still decaying in most ways. | |
| ▲ | jijijijij 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In context of the article, the economic performance is hardly relevant. The authoritarian forces are still strong in Poland, their institutional damage persistent. |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It doesn’t have immigrants so the right wing tries extra hard to paint it as rosy. | | |
| ▲ | maratc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are about 1.5 million immigrants from Ukraine alone. | | |
| ▲ | dyauspitr 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | White immigrants. Don’t act naive. | |
| ▲ | eigenspace 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The Americans who fetishize Poland do it because of their concept of it being 'racially pure' while having a growing economy. They don't particularly care about Ukrainians because Americans don't recognize any racial or ethnic difference between Ukrainians and Poles. | | |
| ▲ | greenavocado 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Look up a map of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth | | |
| ▲ | eigenspace 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | So you are confirming that I'm right in my assertion that the reason you aren't bothered by the Ukrainian refugees in Poland is that you don't see them diluting the racial purity of Poland? |
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| ▲ | greenavocado 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Where is the lie? | | |
| ▲ | dyauspitr 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It’s not that rosy? Especially compared to literally every country in Western Europe. |
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| ▲ | eigenspace 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ding Ding Ding |
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| ▲ | dgellow 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That impacts the whole developed world, it’s not a polish issue |
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| ▲ | flossly 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is fertility so important? Maybe the other western countries are equally infertile, but just allowed many immigrants in (which counts are population expansion) that also have more children on average. How are Japan and Korea holing out? They are further down the infertility down-spiral. |
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| ▲ | lo_zamoyski 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The very consumerism that has made it materially wealthy has fucked up its citizens' priorities. Indeed, because the wealth differential over the last 30 years is as steep as it is - and because people are generally petty - it actually creates a perverse incentive to prioritize wealth accumulation over family life just to "keep up". You don't want the Joneses to outdo you. You don't want to seem shabbier. So, maybe rapid growth combined with consumerist impulses is a deadly combination for a society. If only rapid growth were combined with healthy and wise priorities... |
