Re:Six Ideas for Poland
by talldatethrow on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @02:29PM
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I'd rather be poorer than deal with everything the west is throwing on everyone. A poorer Poland is still a better Poland than a wealthier not so Poland anymore.
And if you want to start a Polish office, hire Polish people. Don't tell me you need Indians and Chinese people. If you can't do it with Polish people because we're too dumb or lazy or uneducated for your business, oh well. Don't just import people. Most poles don't want them.
However bad you think right wing Polish people are, it's probably worse when you're not in the room. So please consider than in your next round of investment.
It's not a left or a right issue - when I want to start a foreign office, I often need to bring in talent from my other offices.
If it's a pain to get short term work visas for my employees (India, China) or if there are fears of safety and xenophobia (Israel, India), my employees don't feel like helping start those on-site offices.
If my employees don't want to visit those countries, we may as well choose one of the several other CEE states like Czechia or Romania.
Already Romania has almost caught up to Poland in GDP per Capita and social indicators despite being much poorer barely a decade ago.
> It's not worth taking your investment money if it means destroying one of that last non destroyed European countries.
Be careful what you wish for.
Hungarian voters thought the same way 10 years ago, and that lead to capital outflows to Poland and Romania.
Almost every large private sector Polish employer by revenue is owned by a foreign MNC. 40% of the Polish economy is owned by us "foreign investors".
We're fine moving that money away, and that did start towards the end of the Duda administration due to political instability, with a lot of capital outflows to Romania which rolled out the red carpet for us.