poland

Anecdotally speaking, Polish people are industrious as fuck

And once they got markets, they were like “bet”

Not as famous as Deng Xiaoping or Manmohan Singh, but Balcerowicz is a goated economic reformer 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcerowicz_Plan

on the industrious part:

here is my favorite youtube channel recently, spotlights all the cool manufacturing tech we built over last 20 years

english captions available

https://www.youtube.com/@fabryki/videos

factories are so fascinating to me with so much to learn from. highly recommend touring one/ seeing an assembly line. thanks for sharing!