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> Cut all welfare and government handouts, cut taxes on labor and on employment. Eastern Europe has the former, and as for the latter entrepreneurs in the indu
by Tade0 5mo ago
> Cut all welfare and government handouts, cut taxes on labor and on employment.
Eastern Europe has the former, and as for the latter entrepreneurs in the industry just don't pay their taxes - ask me how I know.
There's still a shortage.
- AdrianB1 5mo agoI live in Romania and we have high taxes on labor (but very low for journalists, so they are happy) and we have labor shortage in some areas - in my grandparent's village it because a lot of young people are working in Germany and also because people don't have kids. But we have places where 1/3 of the inhabitants live on welfare and that is less than 100 km away, also in rural area.
- joe_mamba 5mo ago>There's still a shortage. Yeah but for completely different reasons. Highly skilled workers from Eastern Europe go to US, London, Zurich to make big money there better than back home, and low-skilled workers from Eastern Europe go to Germany for the generous welfare and child benefits better than back home. I'm originally from Eastern Europe too. Countries like Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and the Baltics managed to avoid this outcome, but Hungary and those in the Balkans are kind of stuck in this downward spiral they can't get out of. They've already lost of lot of workers, both skilled and unskilled to the west, and local birth rates are shit and EU funding won't last forever. Any kind of economic miracle recovery similar to Poland seems out of the question now. Once the war in Ukraine ends, most EU funds will go there instead of the balkans so if they haven't built a strong economy by the time Ukraine enters the EU, they're truly fucked. Similar how East Germany was fucked after Poland entered the EU.