WOW:
Poland is on track to surpass Japan in real GDP per capita (PPP).
Life in Warsaw may soon feel richer than in Tokyo. A post-communist nation catching up with one of the world's richest, in just two generations.
I find it always incredible.
You get rich-country functionality… https://t.co/Ehtjadeaj2 pic.twitter.com/3yJPrMf5WC
— Alessandro Palombo (@thealepalombo) January 9, 2026
Related:
25 years ago, the US and Germany had similar labor productivity. Germany was a global industrial powerhouse.
Then Germany followed the left-green path of overregulation, bureaucracy, energy suicide, and redistribution, and became the sick man of Europe. Don’t be like Germany. pic.twitter.com/1AiP9L5Bnm
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) January 10, 2026