A Bucharest dweller works 27 minutes to get the money buying him a loaf of bread. A dweller of Prague works 12 minutes, while one of Frankfurt works eight minutes for the same bread.
Unfortunately, the work day is limited at eight hours, and Romanians do not have time to earn money for much else than the basics. Even those, they have to buy in minute portions, as the Ceausescu regime once recommended they should, for a "healthy" lifestyle.
On the grand scheme of things, the Czechs' GDP is double the one of Romanians'.
At the same time, Romanians spend 37.25% of their income on food.
Compare that with the Czechs spending 16.56%, and the Germans spending 12.32%.
So, why are the Czechs 15 minutes faster at earning their daily bread than the Romanians?
Because they were 15 minutes early in making up their minds when it came to reforming their economy with foreign investments.
They accepted so much foreign capital that now they built their own, which they use to invest in poorer countries, like Romania is.
When people demonstrated in Bucharest, in the '90s, against foreign investments, the Czechs, Hungarians and Poles kept quiet, while quietly accepted foreign money to revamp their economies.
Therefore, the Czechs are 15 minutes smarter than we are, because things that matter, like money, bread, GDP, all come to one thing: years-wide gap in economic development.
While we kept to our own, we forgot that after discarding the communism we got liberté, egalité, fraternité & sécurité in plenty, but that those were never good to fill stomachs.
- Translation: AAP
A Bucharest dweller works 27 minutes to get the money buying him a loaf of bread. A dweller of Prague works 12 minutes, while one of Frankfurt works eight minutes for the same bread.
Unfortunately, the work day is limited at eight hours, and Romanian
