Why would I want to join the EU? Sombody explain please

[HoreTore]

Er, what 'political system'????

New Labour. A socialist movement advocating privatization induces vomiting.

@Zim: Wages have everything to do with it when discussing cheap labour...

[Vladimir]

New Labour. A socialist movement advocating privatization induces vomiting.

Divided by a common language?

[Zim]

I meant that wages have nothing to do with a countries designation as a first, second or third world country, since those are politically based distinctions from an era that ended over a decade ago.

Even taking the popular use of "third world" as another way of saying poor, it doesn't fit. Poland may not have Norway's standard of living, but out of the 180+ countries in the world, it is still one of the richer ones, with a decent HDI rating and higher wages than most of the other countries in the world.

New Labour. A socialist movement advocating privatization induces vomiting.

@Zim: Wages have everything to do with it when discussing cheap labour...

[HoreTore]

I meant that wages have nothing to do with a countries designation as a first, second or third world country, since those are politically based distinctions from an era that ended over a decade ago.

Even taking the popular use of "third world" as another way of saying poor, it doesn't fit. Poland may not have Norway's standard of living, but out of the 180+ countries in the world, it is still one of the richer ones, with a decent HDI rating and higher wages than most of the other countries in the world.

Yes, but they're still a source of cheap labour. If they quit, we can simply find another source, be that eastern bloc, third world or whatever.