While most of the people tremble before the global economic crisis for some it is nothing special. And why should it be? They have experienced this crisis all their life and have survived it.
I am of course speaking about people it the third world countries. Maybe not only the third world as most post soviet countries are in the same position. Let’s look at the post soviet era countries. While most of them have valuable natural resources the quality of life has not changed very much since the soviet times. During the soviet times the salaries were quite small and even if you were a lucky one with a bigger government official’s salary there was still the utter lack of goods. It did not matter how much money you had as there was simply nothing to do with it. Shops were empty, private business was more or less illegal and real estate market did not exist as such. So it was basically a crisis. None the less people survived I would even say more; they were happy. Yes they did not have very much, but nobody had and it was ok. Ok yes there was one thing different from today. There was virtually no unemployment. The government spends a humongous amount of money, but everyone who was willing had a job and was played for it. Of course from the economical side point it was a total catastrophe as the economy could not sustain itself and eventually collapsed.
After the independence was gained not that much changed. Yes a handful of people became very rich even obscenely rich, but most people still had low salaries and were forced to struggle. Of course now the difference was that the shops were full of good. If only there was the necessary money to actually benefit from this fact. But no matter what people survived and still were quite happy.
The general idea behind this entire rumble is that no matter what we will survive. Sooner or latter the crisis will fade and the quality of life begin to rise, but of course not for everyone. That’s just the way of life.
