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    Laut IWF wird Irland bis 2030 Luxemburg überholen und zum reichsten Land Europas werden


    Laut IWF wird Irland bis 2030 Luxemburg überholen und zum reichsten Land Europas werden

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/ireland-set-to-surpass-luxembourg-and-become-richest-country-in-europe-by-2030-imf-says-1892990.html

    Von Banania2020

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    2. Senior_Ad4912 on

      And Luxembourg has a completely free and functioning public transport system. Their tram is literally a Luas deluxe that goes to the airport and bigger (+free)

    6. VastJuice2949 on

      Provide the capital a metro, more apartments, taller buildings in general. The richest country should at least look like its rich

    7. wrghf on

      You’d honestly wonder where all the money goes. Very little of it seems to go to capital investments for the good of the country as a whole.

      Our public transport is absolute fucking rubbish, active transport infrastructure is almost non-existent except in very limited instances, hospitals are horrendously overcrowded and waiting lists are often measured in years, we don’t bother to fund our defence, we don’t have a motorway between our 2nd and 3rd biggest cities, and so on.

      And yet we’re churning out budget surpluses year after year? Makes absolutely no sense.

    10. DunAnOir on

      Ireland being the richest country is very very different from Irish being the richest people or having the best quality of life. FFG likes to appear rich on paper and they’re very good at it. Using that wealth — or whatever portion of it actually exists in real life once all the artifice has been stripped away — isn’t on the agenda except for the bare minimum. Don’t expect much, or indeed anything, to change. The health service will still be a chaotic mess. Public transport will still be a joke in bad taste. Public spaces and amenities will still be shit. Teachers and nurses will still be paid and treated like shit. Our prices will still be disastrous. Our electorate will still continue to be turkeys voting for Christmas.

    11. Tomaskerry on

      Where does all the tax money go?

      Health, education, social services I guess.

      We don’t have the infrastructure of a wealthy country, except the roads I guess.

      Our streetscape doesn’t look wealthy or classy.
      Looks kind of cheap.

    13. Key-Half1655 on

      David McWilliams did a great podcast recently called „Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe“ that tries to explain what little we have to show while being awash with cash. Pre warning, it’ll boil your piss listening why.

    14. TheMadEscapist on

      Wow cool can I see some of that money please. It’s all being sucked up by expensive food and bills.

    17. DaemonCRO on

      It does not matter if our income is high and if in paper we look rich.

      If you have to pay

      – crazy prices for childcare
      – private hospitals because public hospitals don’t work
      – crazy amount for food
      – one of the highest rents in EU
      – ridiculous insurance rates
      …

      Then our income is meaningless. The money is churning, but we don’t see effects of it.

      There’s a joke with two economists walking in a park, and they spot a dog poo. First one says: I’ll give you 200€ if you eat it. Second one does it, eats the poo, and gets his 200€. Ten minutes later, poo again, but now second one says: you eat it, I’ll give you 200€ back. So he does it.

      So the first one says: aren’t we stupid, we both ate shit, and nobody actually made money.

      But second one then says: ah no no, we created 400€ market value.

      This is us. Eating shit, while some number in some spreadsheet is going up.

    21. rustic_advice on

      Richest country in Europe that doesn’t even have proper public transport.

    24. harpyelf on

      Ireland set to become richest country in Europe yet the average Joe still lives at home with their parents due to insane rent hikes and the massive gap between wages and cost of living.

      At this point it’s satirical. It would be nice if we could actually see this wealth in action rather than it going to tech companies and data centres. We’re in a very privileged position to see this kind of trajectory for the country yet the average living conditions just do not match up.

    25. no___thoughts on

      I would say we’re a well paid country, not a rich one..

      Living in someone’s shed in the back with no rental rights, car insurance with no regulations, a tax system that punishes people and any attempt to build wealth through stocks is taxed to oblivion, a crumbling health sector, years long waiting lists, children not receiving the care they need in a timely manner, not to mention massive increases in homelessness every year

      But hey at least we got a bike shed to show for it all ✨

    26. suntlen on

      There’s still 3.5 years to go to 2030. Plenty of time for an economic crash that would vaporise that prediction.

    27. christopher1393 on

      Yet a lot of us can barely afford to live anymore. Its very disgusting that a country that is about to become the richest in Europe, the majority of its citizens are struggling to afford to live. Inflation, the manufactured housing crisis, everything being taxed and taxed again…

    28. insomnium2020 on

      This whole country is a scam run by grifters. Seems like half the average person’s wage is used for the black hole of a public sector and NGOs and helping everyone except the people that pay for everything

    30. Dismal_Uses on

      One bogus economy is going to be richer than another bogus economy by 2030.

    31. Unfair_Taro6285 on

      We’re only rich because we don’t spend a dime on anything useful like public transportation, roads, housing but blow a billion + on children hospitals, bike shelters… printers that don’t work…

    33. Padraig4941 on

      I mean the United States is the richest country in the world, I don’t think a country being rich/the richest correlates to the country being a good, functional or enviable society.

    34. DangerX2HighVoltage on

      I hate these reports. Does anyone feel richer than a decade ago? Even 5 years ago?

      Can’t wait for our incompetent government to squander it.

    35. DrawGamesPlayFurries on

      Highest GDP per capita does not make you richest, because this number grows just as fast when population declines as it does when GDP increases. Of course population will not increase in a country where residential construction is, by European standards, banned.

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