A close friend of mine from Minsk moved to Warsaw after Russia invaded Ukraine. He also moved the majority of his software company’s employees. There had been a huge brain drain from Ukraine and Belarus to Poland. I’m not surprised their economy is booming.
lordnacho666 on
You can see the end of authoritarian rule on the Poland line. And the beginning on the Venezuela line.
Remove the effects of oil prices to see the government effect. Maybe someone can drop in the oil price chart for us.
eucariota92 on
It is incredible how one time after the other, socialism creates tyrants and poverty and every developed country is full of people with a full belly defending socialism.
Nachtzug79 on
Poland dropped socialism in the late 1980s. Venezuela adopted socialism in the beginning of the 2000s.
maedroz on
Crazy what free markets will do to you
Practical_Smell_4244 on
Poland’s abysmal birthdate will…..adjust this graph in the near future
ResultRecent6254 on
Polands fertility rate hit 1.0 also. Second worst in europe after Ukraine. In 3 generations, 75-90 years, their population will be 90% less from now. Thats also assuming it wont drop any further, which it surely will. It will end up being – 95% probably
FightOnForUsc on
A log scale graph I think would also be interesting for this. But this is also just a screenshot? You want upvotes for posting a screenshot and then label it [OC] come on now
uberprimata on
Maybe this time socialism will work!
Danskoesterreich on
EU > oil
jorel43 on
That’s what’ll happen when you sanction someone to hell, that’s also what will happen when your entire economy is 90% dependent on one commodity and the price of that commodity crashes
Asrahn on
On one end: coups, sanctions
On the other: largest recipient of EU funds in the entire union
Gee guys I can’t figure this one out lol
gotagohome on
Reddit will not like this
Vaqek on
This is what communism does to a country.
madmendude on
Interesting how Poland kicks off once communism is removed and it starts going downhill for Venezuela when communism comes in.
lukinhasb on
Now plot the number of sanctions, too.
Significant_Bed_3330 on
Poland joined the EU, and Venezuela got Dutch Disease
VicenteOlisipo on
Seems like Venezuela became screwed in the 1980s, like everyone else.
HideousPillow on
unless you’re our world in data this isn’t oc
this_place_stinks on
Reddit is a crazy place trying to think of anything they can besides the obvious of one embracing free market capitalism and the other embracing a dictatorial socialism
![[OC] GDP per capita Poland vs Venezuela](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ek40ynwtzcbg1-1024x690.jpeg "[OC] GDP per capita Poland vs Venezuela")
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A close friend of mine from Minsk moved to Warsaw after Russia invaded Ukraine. He also moved the majority of his software company’s employees. There had been a huge brain drain from Ukraine and Belarus to Poland. I’m not surprised their economy is booming.
You can see the end of authoritarian rule on the Poland line. And the beginning on the Venezuela line.
Remove the effects of oil prices to see the government effect. Maybe someone can drop in the oil price chart for us.
It is incredible how one time after the other, socialism creates tyrants and poverty and every developed country is full of people with a full belly defending socialism.
Poland dropped socialism in the late 1980s. Venezuela adopted socialism in the beginning of the 2000s.
Crazy what free markets will do to you
Poland’s abysmal birthdate will…..adjust this graph in the near future
Polands fertility rate hit 1.0 also. Second worst in europe after Ukraine. In 3 generations, 75-90 years, their population will be 90% less from now. Thats also assuming it wont drop any further, which it surely will. It will end up being – 95% probably
A log scale graph I think would also be interesting for this. But this is also just a screenshot? You want upvotes for posting a screenshot and then label it [OC] come on now
Maybe this time socialism will work!
EU > oil
That’s what’ll happen when you sanction someone to hell, that’s also what will happen when your entire economy is 90% dependent on one commodity and the price of that commodity crashes
On one end: coups, sanctions
On the other: largest recipient of EU funds in the entire union
Gee guys I can’t figure this one out lol
Reddit will not like this
This is what communism does to a country.
Interesting how Poland kicks off once communism is removed and it starts going downhill for Venezuela when communism comes in.
Now plot the number of sanctions, too.
Poland joined the EU, and Venezuela got Dutch Disease
Seems like Venezuela became screwed in the 1980s, like everyone else.
unless you’re our world in data this isn’t oc
Reddit is a crazy place trying to think of anything they can besides the obvious of one embracing free market capitalism and the other embracing a dictatorial socialism
Democracy is more valuable than any resources….