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>You are right - because our countries had the same political structure - they has no future...
We have at least changed the political structure, but most of the people there are corrupt by the previous system (and I don't mean socialism - I mean the barbarian type of wild-west capitalism of Milosevic), including the politicians. My estimate was that it will take about ten years to get a new generation of politicians who will be honest enough and responsible enough - but I'm probably correcting myself to about fifteen years.
>Yes, that legasy very terribly - in my country have no habit - working, because in the communist's time they had all they need - alcohol, some easy meal... All people had the same - we was not interested to work better...
Alcohol is no problem - moonshine is legal in Yugoslavia - except that it's curing itself out by itself, because not too many people can afford to drink. But the habits are hard. So many people are brought up in the spirit of "radio ne radio, svira ti radio" (you work or not - the radio plays) and "they can never pay me so little as little I can work".
Luckily, in 1989-1991 we had the period of softly-introduced free enterprise, where little shops were popping up like mushrooms everywhere, and after ten years even more came. I think in mid-90s private sector was already employing 40% and producing 60% of the GNP.
It's also the influence of the fast-paced small companies (like the two that I have co-founded -
www.mpa.co.yu and
www.alas.co.yu) which were setting an example, and specially in the software business, helped many of our customers get re-organized (under the pretext of "adjusting to computer technology") and saved them a lot of money they were previously losing because of being too slow to get the information about themselves. Sometimes this was drastic - most of the time they wouldn't know the cost of production until the year's end, and estimated the production prices, or calculated manually, which took a couple of months and was useless because of being so late. Just the one report I made which calculated this (ran about two minutes under FPD2.6) gave them this edge.
One thing to add - we have about a million people like me, working abroad, and have them for almost forty years. Some of them have returned home and brought different knowledge, money and/or habits. If we didn't have this friggin' wars around, we would have been halfway to the developed world by now. Maybe that's the reason the wars were planted.
>I hope that it will change, may be...
Like Engels said, "the only constant in the economy is that the people will always do what's most profitable to them personally". As soon as work becomes profitable...
