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0 pointsChuckNorris894y ago0 comments

As someone living in Austria, I noticed this as well. Rich Austrians own all big businesses and all desirable properties in Croatia.

I wonder what will happen to Croatia, politically, in the future, when the young there find themselves priced out of their own country by richer foreigners.

Seems like uncontrolled capitalism has enabled a form of economic colonialism, as proven further by the money printer let loose during Coving, making the rich richer and the poor poorer, to which the response is always "that's just how the free market works".

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jq-r4y ago

I'm glad that I'm not the only one seeing this effect. And economic colonialism is a succinct way of putting it as you said.

I mostly blame the government for it. If we had a better economy we could compete and the prices for us locals wouldn't be prohibitively expensive. But no, our government (and most of opposition) is a corrupt criminal organization so there is no way out of it. We're just getting poorer and poorer relatively speaking unfortunately.

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jq-r4y ago

I'm glad that I'm not the only one seeing this effect. And economic colonialism is a succinct way of putting it as you said.

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