Thread · HN Continuity

I am Polish as well although currently living abroad. I am way more optimistic than the author of the post. It's true that a lot of negative events happened in very short time but we are still doing pretty well. Economy is growing, standards of life are growing. Polish people are hard working. The culture pushes back against entitlements and class warfare. Poland didn't succumb to socialist populists (at least not too much) so there is a good chance for further growth. On the immigration front we got Ukrainians who work and assimilate well so at least for now we avoided problems a lot of other EU countries face.

It would be nice if we had more competent politicians trying to solve problems and make things more efficient though but that's a problem no democracy in EU solved. We are paying for years of kicking the can in the energy department now but on the other hand maybe that will speed-up transition to EVs which will be both great for standards of living and significantly more efficient.

Geopolitics is hard to predict but I am also in optimist camp when it comes to war in Iran. The oil is flowing again and Iran can't do much about it. Workarounds will be found. Ukrainians now have a way to really hurt Russia which may result in peace at some point as well. If anything it's clear Russia is not dangerous in conventional war. They have sabotage but that imo is going to be less and less efficient as infrastructure and intelligence improve to handle it.

Overall - a lot of things went wrong and we are still standing. Once the environment improve we are in great position to be one of the best places to live and work in EU.