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  • - i came expecting to read something about how taking no immigrants has helped or something along those lines

    - has there been any studies conducted on how 10% immigration affects a country's economic outcomes?

    by vivzkestrel
  • Great news, but could we have a higher GDP per capita, please? That's the most important part, isn't it?
    by cynicalsecurity
  • I saw an interesting stat recently that the poorest USA state, Mississippi, has a larger economy and GDP than 1/3rd of all EU members.

    It just seems like the EU is too top-heavy and I wonder if that's where a lot of the discontent comes from. It seems like there a lot of micro-nations in eastern Europe that have outsized influence over the union as a whole.

    by petcat
  • I live in Switzerland and have worked in projects in Poland. It's obvious which country is wealthier.
    by comrade1234
  • They deserve it.

    I'm in the UK. The smartest developers I worked with in my ~20 year career were all Polish.

    The hardest-working and most skilled tradespeople that worked on my houses were Polish.

    by cbeach
  • How much money did they get from EU in last 5 years? Combine that with a lot of ukrainian migrants that actually work and open businesses you get this
    by lapkaaaa
  • Poland has made a lot of good moves lately. for techies in the UK/US they might not care that much - but there's also an effect on you.

    in the U.K - a polish skilled workers are choosing to remaining in Poland instead of moving to the uk.

    for the US - a lot of firms are setting up polish offices - hence when you hear 'a.i' efficiency most of those jobs have moved to Poland or India. Whether it's big tech, big banks and small funded VC startups. What remains in the US are just senior+, staff software engineers.

    by dzonga
  • I don't get the hype around nominal GDP at all – looks great, but tells you little to none about the actual living conditions. Living in Poland, I don't feel richer than an average Belgian person (and I've had contact with many of them across the years).
    by penchant

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