In the last ‘Five.” I reminded Morawiecki of his words “rice bowl“, recorded in the infamous “Sowa and Friends” restaurant. The future Prime Minister in an interview with his bankster colleagues presented his worldview.
Let's review the context. It's 2013, the platform has no 1 to lose to. Representatives of then elites, who are besides representatives of present elites, discuss politics at octopuses.
PKO president Zbigniew Jagiełło, PGE president Krzysztof Kilian and his deputy Bogusława Matuszewska participate in the conversation outside Morawiecki. Everyone owes their positions to Tusk.
Speaking of Poland's capital weakness, Morawiecki explains its sources: “You drive around this planet anyway, you wonder, you know where the difference is, but that, of course, 3 100 years ago, we screwed up and alternatively of having a appropriate Enlightenment... we were playing any kind of veto liberal, noble democracy and so on.”
It's interesting that Enlightenment had 2 conflicting currents. Republican-democratic and absolutistic, idealizing dictatorship of the enlightened king-philosopher.
Supporters of both these currents argued, utilizing Poland as an example. Wolter, as the admiral of Frederick II and Catherine the Great, condemned Polish republicanism – Rousseau defended it.
For Morawiecki the "orderly Enlightenment", as the context shows, is enlightened absolutism. Prussian Monarchy or Carat, not any “nobility democracy”.
For everyone else, it is “order”. As a Polish left, I feel the heir to the tradition of Kiliński, Kolłataj, Kościuszko, Lelewel, etc. So those who have seen the causes of the fall of the RON alternatively in poorness than in excess of democracy. But it's a substance of arbitrary choices.
What is more crucial is what he said about a "rice bowl". He began with Western politicians who “in a planet like today, where for 50 years people thought it would always be better, pensions would be rather high, we would live longer and longer, wellness care would be free for*** and education for free, they the curve that you know went so far as to expect, they had to undo it, no. And that's what happens. (...) What Merkel does... It works on the most crucial things of society or expectations. Management of results. How people beat you for a bowl of rice, as it was in the days after planet War II and in the process, then the economy all rebuilt.”
That's objectively not true. In the United States, Germany, large Britain, France, Italy, Benelux and the Nordic countries, the economy flourished after 1945 with immense social projects. Morawiecki just doesn't know history.
He continued to talk about the request to “defuse expectations” in Poland, saying that the best way is to “war”. The lower expectations are, of course, to have plebs specified as you and I, dear reader – due to the fact that not the elite.
None of the bankers active in this conversation, who owe cosmic earnings to connections with Tuski and Kaczyński, said, “we gotta lower our expectations, let's go to a bowl of fried rice to the Chinese around the corner.”
In the Morawiecki pandemic he found his “war”. After the election, he will start to "lower expectations".
The elections will go under vague promises "that wages in Poland should be just like in Western Europe". There is only 1 way to do this: to strengthen the negotiating position of workers, as was done in Western Europe.
Three models can be distinguished. Typical of Anglo-Saxon countries "union shop“is a deal in which the trade union (after obtaining the approval of the crew in a referendum) takes only the power to negociate on its behalf.
This leads to shocking situations for Poles, in which, for example, at a trade fair, the exhibitors learn that they cannot wire their exhibition themselves, due to the fact that the monopoly has a local connection. This ends with abuses that we know from the movie "Irish".
There's besides ghent model, typical of Benelux and Nordic countries in which the unions are quasi-stated. They pay benefits, they act as work inspections, etc.
This model assumes no pluralism. They all belong to the same headquarters, which in the Nordic countries is simply called “National organisation” (‘LO’).
Poles have pluralism in their blood, so they will not accept a model in which there is no pluralism at the company level (union shop). And surely 1 in which he is not (Gandawa).
I've been recommending a model for years. Mitbestimmung/Autogestion, introduced in Germany, among others. In this model, employees co-manage the workplace, and the primary task of unions is to compete in the election of crew representation.
If anyone knows another model, kind it in. I know 1 thing: nowhere has it worked out in the way that we are promised by Duda that large investments will let companies to make more money, so they will besides pay more workers.
Reader, ask yourself: If your employer abruptly made an extra million, would he give you a raise? She'll pay you what you got in the deal. The surplus will go to dividends, a bonus to the board, or investments.
In the West, too, companies began to make more money and pay more. The legislators introduced the solutions described above, strengthening the negotiating position of workers. Without these laws, the rich would get rich and the mediocre would get poor, as happens where they were dismantled according to neoliberal utopia.
I would support any government that would introduce pro-worker laws in Poland. So far, Morawiecki, under the pretext of a pandemic, seeks to reduce the negotiating position of workers.
The effect will be that even if individual made money on these investments – it will be the brother of the minister, or his wife, or a ski instructor. Not me and not you.
Morawiecki does not want to build a second RFN. He wants to build the second Hohenzollern Prussia, that is, his perfect of "orderly Enlightenment".
