Some populist Czech politicians built their electoral success on anti-Ukrainian hate among the population. The flood of Ukrainians has put a strain on shared resources, that is true, and the previous government was kind lenient towards Ukrainian criminals. I personally also don’t like the ambivalence towards Ukrainians celebrating Bandera that I have expressed on this blog. In Poland they are much more sensitive to these matters. But besides agreeing that criminals should be deported back to Ukraine, I have very little against Ukrainians here. Matter of fact, I support the right of anyone to leave Ukraine. Not only is Ukraine hard to live in now, it was crap even before 2014.
And I find it ironic that the anti-immigration, ethno-purist nationalist is residing on the right together with the support of capitalism and the free market. The true capitalist position is in fact on the left that supports open borders. Because the capitalist needs workforce for his factories. In Czechia we not only have the Ukrainians now, we have people from the Philippines, from Vietnam, feom Uzbekistan, from Mongolia. And since these guys will send most of the money to Asia in remittances, their work will like benefit local merchants, landlords, and service providers only sporadically. The only person that benefits is the factory owner. The factory owner sponsors the politician.
In fact, even socialism and redistribution of wealth is a capitalist position because at the end of the day, we are moving towards a post-labor economy, where the worker will be replaced by automation and artificial intelligence. And what are we gonna do with the unproductive consumers? 😆👌Here in Czechia, if you prove you have nothing, you’ll get money from the government. All the Gypsies are officially penniless. You can get housing benefits, and benefits for kids too provided you have an income that doesn’t match expenses. 😆👌This is already a basic income, albeit not universal.
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