Poland has emerged as the most pro-capitalist nation globally, even surpassing the GOAT of capitalism – the US

by Compute_Dissonance

23 comments

  1. They asked people whether they were pro capitalist or not, right? I don’t understand german.

  3. A country that emerged from communism as one of the poorest in Europe is against socialism? Who would have thought?

  6. Oh, so that’s why it was so easy for PiS to get votes with government handouts.

    Just saying, Poles probably understand capitalism differently than Americans do

  8. We just hate communism and aren’t that fully anti-socialist.

    I think shock therapy libs and current left have pretty much the same support levels at 10-15% with rest population being centrist.

  9. No surprise here, decades of robbing a nation blind in the name of totalitarian ideology does that to mf.

    In the 90’s people rushed to open their businesses, you could sell whatever and be successfull as there was nothing of quality available.

    My dad sold paperback novels. War themed, spy novels, horrors… (Jack Ludlum, Clancy, Masterton, Graham)
    Built a house for the money.

  10. I expect Greece to follow. Despite the low rank in the list it is the Second term of the center right and in those recent elections the left collapsed. The sum of all left parties was marginally smaller than the center right party alone and the difference between first and second party was 20%+ (41% first 17% second). The strongest left part also just elected as a leader a more moderate candidate over the hardcore leftist ones. The left was morally superior because of military junta and other far right regimes of the past but after the crisis (which the left got more blame for causing driving healthy debt levels during the 80s to the mess that made Greece collapse later) and also during 2015 humiliation + destruction of the middle class through their taxes + ignoring the referendum result has basically made the left collapse as a whole.

  11. Poles underestimate effect of US pop culture on their society. Even the left and right divide is so similar it’s crazy. I believe it comes to history being at a time sounded by Russia and Germany, both countries that hurt Poland they needed to some kind of example, that is totally unrealed from all this. US views and certain cultural similarities fit really well here. Obviously the more conservative, old school part of it, but new liberal views are also carbon copy of what is happening in US.

  15. only idiots who didn’t live in a communist nation support socialism.

  16. Was the definition of capitalism included in the question? I would imagine most people are thinking “free market with social safety nets and potential government intervention”, not “hypercorp no rules balls to the walls capitalism”. I’d even say the understanding of the word is understood differently by different nationalities.

  17. It’s kind of a meaningless question, since no alternative to capitalism exists.

    The real political question is not whether you are for or against capitalism, but how the economy and finance system should be designed.

  18. At first, I was like “what in the hell is südkorea?” Then it hit me, I’m stupid. Brain farts …. more like brain diharea.

  19. Well done Poland 👍. Take out all the communist shit

  21. That’s what happens when you evolve from a socialist state.

  22. I don’t think we are that pro-capitalist, we just hate communism.

  23. Thats really a bad comparison. Capitalism means totally different things for different countries, especially if you compare poland to the u.s. for example

Leave a Reply