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The only case where significant wealth was inherited are descendants of 90s era "businessmen" and descendants of communist era politicians, security service fun
by durnygbur 4y ago
The only case where significant wealth was inherited are descendants of 90s era "businessmen" and descendants of communist era politicians, security service functionaries, and high level administrative employees. Basically Polish oligarchs. The commie block flat, or flat in newly built fenced "apartment block" is not wealth.
- emteycz 4y agoDidn't Poland have a privatization post-revolution like Czechia had? Here, we returned most of what was stolen to the ancestors of the original owners.
- durnygbur 4y agoPrivatization in Poland was mostly selling for a fraction of price to western corporations, mostly French, German, American, some to Italians and Brits. In some cases there were local Polish intermediaries with political connections and the transaction made them into the list of richest Poles. In our case the original owners vanished with no descendants, decided for permanent emigration, or the business was originally foreign owned prewar.
- emteycz 4y agoIt wasn't all fine and dandy here too, but at least buildings and land were mostly returned (corporations were mostly robbed by the communists so there wasn't much to return). Has Polish land not been returned at all to the rightful owners?
- margor 4y agoIf you don't consider flats as "wealth" (given the crazy prices of it in major cities, being like 2x or 3x as much as national average wage, that is per square meter) then I guess 90% of polish society has nothing by that means. Actually, what do you consider wealth?