Poverty came to the Czech lands, partly as a result of foreign investment, partly because of the Green Deal, and the war brought everything to a close. Sanctions have hit the small Central European EU members harder than Russia.
Along with the misery is one originally American phenomenon – working poverty. By this is meant that a person works full-time, often quite hard, but the wages are not enough for even modest housing and basic food. In the humiliating food aid lines, where it was normal to see homeless people, drug addicts, or fresh migrants, you start to see “normal” people.
Sanctions have hit the small Central European EU members harder than Russia.
This is to be expected. But much more interesting are the reactions of some of the readers of Seznam, which carried a report from such a queue.
“There are certainly no people standing in that queue who support constructive liberal politics.” “They can do it themselves!” “What have they been doing all their lives that they don’t have savings?” And so on.
Nice moralistic preachers. Yes, those people may not be as capable as you or they may have made some bad decisions. It’s just that if they hadn’t, they’d be in your place today and you’d be in that line. You’d just switch. That’s the essence of a competitive society.
