Small countries can implement new technologies much faster, be more innovative and gain benefits from there. Easy.
Regional GDP per capita never seemed to mean much to me. If you take France for instance, Paris has a much higher regional GDP per capita than the rest of the country, because many companies officially have their seat there. Are people much wealthier in Paris? Not in my experience.
Czechia is a very centralized country with one main center. Large companies operating all over the country are all registered in Prague and their added value is counted there.
It doesn’t show the development level of Prague specifically. Average salary would be far better to measure that.
If you were to move the headquarters address of a large national telecom to some tiny village then the village’s GDP per capita would skyrocket to something ridiculous, but that wouldn’t mean the village itself would become insanely rich.
But fresh graduated engineers from CVUT in Prague earn same salary as 18 y.o. german child who works at a gas station in eastern german Kuhkaff with Realschule certificate… But I don’t find huge differences between graduates from German TU9 and CVUT.
Its not something we should proud of. We also have 2 regions, which are very poor. Centralized wealth and decentralized poverty. That’s what’s happening.
And it isn’t like there isn’t equality props to workers who bought stocks when communism falled
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GDP per capita visualised in a [map](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/11571499/GDP_per_capita_ver3-01.jpg).
Small countries can implement new technologies much faster, be more innovative and gain benefits from there. Easy.
Regional GDP per capita never seemed to mean much to me. If you take France for instance, Paris has a much higher regional GDP per capita than the rest of the country, because many companies officially have their seat there. Are people much wealthier in Paris? Not in my experience.
Czechia is a very centralized country with one main center. Large companies operating all over the country are all registered in Prague and their added value is counted there.
It doesn’t show the development level of Prague specifically. Average salary would be far better to measure that.
If you were to move the headquarters address of a large national telecom to some tiny village then the village’s GDP per capita would skyrocket to something ridiculous, but that wouldn’t mean the village itself would become insanely rich.
But fresh graduated engineers from CVUT in Prague earn same salary as 18 y.o. german child who works at a gas station in eastern german Kuhkaff with Realschule certificate… But I don’t find huge differences between graduates from German TU9 and CVUT.
Its not something we should proud of. We also have 2 regions, which are very poor. Centralized wealth and decentralized poverty. That’s what’s happening.
And it isn’t like there isn’t equality props to workers who bought stocks when communism falled