The historical age is recognized as a golden age only by historiography, erstwhile it is confronted with the period after it, necessarily worse (silver age). Therefore, describing the full duration of the post-transformation era as a golden age inactive involves controversy. However, the qualification of the golden age becomes amazingly small exaggerated when, firstly, we mention it to the last period in the past of Poland bearing the name, and, secondly, if we focus not on the strengths, but on the sufferings of the Polish state from that period. The 3 most striking similarities are described below, indicating that our golden age erstwhile and for all shows a clear glimpse of the coming silver age.
Since the 16th century, modern Poland has slept through an era of emerging capitalism, perpetuating alternatively an anachronistic economical model based on grain exports. She voluntarily pushed herself into the function of the economical base of a prosperous Western Europe and the marketplace for its high-margin goods. Today, after 30 years of Poland's reintroduction into the western economical cycle, we have not earned any native companies pairing up technologically advanced production for high-martial exports, or providing profitable services. Investment in abroad capital and comparatively low costs of Polish employee, utilized with low strategical links in the production chain, play an crucial function in our economical growth. The profit earned goes abroad and builds the wealth of another countries. The Polish taxation strategy allows abroad entities to pay disproportionately low CITs, naturally without concessions to home entities – in many markets prone to decline against specified unequal competition. This unreflective yield and helplessness towards the economical interest of others, which is not forced by any global obligations, brings to head the acquisition of Polish grain brokerage by Dutch merchants.
In the years of its top glory, the erstwhile Republic revealed the weaknesses of its political system, the most compromising evidence of which was the emigration of the king himself. The legal order undervalued central power, fetishizing parliamentaryism and individual freedom, created the perfect conditions for the disguised as patriotism of brawling. Natural for homo sapiens The pursuit of power, which should be bound by procedures in conditions of democracy, and in conditions of monarchy suppressed, took on in old Poland, equally fatal in being both monarchy and democracy, its wildest and most shameless form. The consequence was a gradual erosion of the regulation of law that yielded before force – in the 17th century already essential to win the "free election". Modern political order was based on a likewise handicapped executive power, broken between the government and the presidential center. By 2016, the authority of the only institution able to keep the coherence of the Polish legal order, despite this and another weaknesses within the government itself – the Constitutional Court, was completely devastated. After the change of power, the fresh ruling coalition, winning the election with the slogan of stopping the collapse of the law, will subjugate the public media under the doctrine of the superiority of the Code of Commercial Companies over the Constitution.
However, the most serious illness of the erstwhile Poland, from which all others grew, was classy. Without doubt, the top nearsightedness of our ancestors was the oligarchization of the political system, without any proportion of privilegedness to the ruling nobility country and the marginalisation of bourgeoisy, which in Western Europe is simply a catalyst for economical and intellectual progress. A strong nobility was a warrant of a halt, as its wealth was based on the most primitive kind of activity—quasi-slavery work of a serfdom peasant, to emulate on which the nobility claimed the law deduced from the property of the land. Modern analogy is becoming clearer nowhere else, as in the increasingly celebrated real property market. After the transformation, virtually any alternate to private housing was eliminated, including many standards limiting the developer's manoeuvre. Housing prices are rising, and along with them, the improvement margins and rental rents are increasing disproportionately rapidly – feudal pensions. Since the beginning of the century, subsequent governments have regularly thrown concrete rescue wheels to Poles in the form of credit subsidies, which, of course, service to rise housing prices in the long term, and thus oppress people with a longer state. possibly the most clear evidence of the birth of the fresh nobility is the words of Jarosław Kaczyński himself, who, erstwhile asked about the failure of the "Lowering Plus" program, explicitly referred to the besides strong influences of the improvement lobby. The social position of this group seems all the more cemented erstwhile we realize how much of our political class already consists of its representatives. Real property investments become the default method of multiplying wealth, bearing all the characteristics of a farm-and-ship economy – fiscally privileged, without any peculiar intelligence or effort, non-innovation and based on exploitation.
