“But now, for a little more than 30 years, they don't have to anymore. The competitor is gone, and with him also the reason to afford oneself social "goodies" in the state system.”
Yes, I agree with you here but don’t forget that Asia has woken up and what this means? It means that Europe, USA and others are in competition with several billions of extremely poor people of Asia, which recently had got all needed industries, technologies, money, resources ,you name it – they had got all they had needed to produce all and twice cheaper. China has no pension and their old guys are living in poverty, needless to mention India and when you or your government decide to buy some product from India you have to think that sooner or later you will live as the middle man at India. It is as simple as that. Americans, maybe are thinking that world war will pull their economy by ears up but not now, not at the times of nuclear power weaponry… So, again, the simple strict logic had told me long ago prepare for more modest life but of course Russians were always surviving – it is kind of our national sport. I can tell you a lot of things happening here as at USSR times as at nineties when my father in law was growing chickens at the garage basement but most of our planet folks are living even worse right now and situation will worsen more with weather problems and constant population growth at equatorial line which is suffering hard from floods and droughts …
“And this is the point that Western Europe and the US reaches now. No more feeding without spending money on it possible anymore.”
Education, yes it suffers at the collective west but we – Russians, it seems has stopped destroying our USSR education system and are trying to get all back… I have best of best post USSR education for free and I appreciate it very much but nowadays youngsters are not willing to study… they want to play computer all day long and work at a plant. Plus we have hundreds of thousands immigrant or better to say guest workers which are working everywhere for less payments which also is not stimulates youngsters to study and work. And anyway Russia is such rich country and it is very difficult to suffer here, at least now, from hunger or being extremely poor if you can walk... Today I had bought wheat for my indo ducks by 0.3 Euro per kilogram. My relative had presented me one duck a year ago and now I have thirty ducks and one else is sitting on eggs. I could not work at all but to grow ducks, chickens, breeding bees and so on because there is so many free and cheap land at Russia now and energy is cheap, fertilizers are cheap of course compare them to Europe…
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Yes, I agree with you here but don’t forget that Asia has woken up and what this means? It means that Europe, USA and others are in competition with several billions of extremely poor people of Asia, which recently had got all needed industries, technologies, money, resources ,you name it – they had got all they had needed to produce all and twice cheaper. China has no pension and their old guys are living in poverty, needless to mention India and when you or your government decide to buy some product from India you have to think that sooner or later you will live as the middle man at India. It is as simple as that. Americans, maybe are thinking that world war will pull their economy by ears up but not now, not at the times of nuclear power weaponry… So, again, the simple strict logic had told me long ago prepare for more modest life but of course Russians were always surviving – it is kind of our national sport. I can tell you a lot of things happening here as at USSR times as at nineties when my father in law was growing chickens at the garage basement but most of our planet folks are living even worse right now and situation will worsen more with weather problems and constant population growth at equatorial line which is suffering hard from floods and droughts …
“And this is the point that Western Europe and the US reaches now.
No more feeding without spending money on it possible anymore.”
Education, yes it suffers at the collective west but we – Russians, it seems has stopped destroying our USSR education system and are trying to get all back…
I have best of best post USSR education for free and I appreciate it very much but nowadays youngsters are not willing to study… they want to play computer all day long and work at a plant. Plus we have hundreds of thousands immigrant or better to say guest workers which are working everywhere for less payments which also is not stimulates youngsters to study and work.
And anyway Russia is such rich country and it is very difficult to suffer here, at least now, from hunger or being extremely poor if you can walk... Today I had bought wheat for my indo ducks by 0.3 Euro per kilogram. My relative had presented me one duck a year ago and now I have thirty ducks and one else is sitting on eggs. I could not work at all but to grow ducks, chickens, breeding bees and so on because there is so many free and cheap land at Russia now and energy is cheap, fertilizers are cheap of course compare them to Europe…