🤯 well spotted!

we think to promote this video of Latvia again on our tv. cannot find another better than this one. great job anyway

There is not a single person that I know who "isn't needed" here. Every body has a job. Sometimes it's a shittty job, but usually those with less education get the shittiest jobs. Your friends must have been really "special".

feenikss can you please help me to get a job in my town?Will be very thankful.i would like salary at least Lv minimum wage and normal hour shift,and good boss who is paying wages,every month how it suppos to be.thanks. I was living past 7 years in other coutry and was doing good job,and then i heard lies from goverment,that life is better in Latvia now and came back and in two year time spend 30 grand of my money,not much left,probably soon goig back,because cant live without job.

It depends on what you can do. Almost everybody I know has some special skill, like IT, art, languages. I could try and help you to find a job in these fields, given you have the skills needed.

feenikss I can do anything,im not disabled or something.I use to work with data systems like manhattan,kronos.Ican speak 4 languages and uderstand another 4(at least)as child i was going to school of art,unfortunately it wast finished,because i left that city.In Latvia im nobody,at town NVA they offered me a job with alchokolics to prepare wood for winter burning and heating houses.IM BIG NOBODY HERE.

We should continue this conversation elsewhere. Check your google hangouts, pls

Ah... So it would probably pain you to find out, that Belarus with its ingenious economy is behind Latvia in gdp per capita. Those assets as least did a splendid job of boosting an authoritarian regime which pretty much alianetes you from the EU, and leaves only Russia as only major ally, which in turn seems to have a fun time with bossing Belarus around. But I guess it's ok for some to tie their hopes with a leader, who, as all autocrat, loses the distinction between public service and private life which each passing year - but as least he had the good sense of not trading in rubles since the crash.

8ViewerD [gdp per capita] - What does GDP has to do with reality of average living standards people receive, especially in heavily socialistic countries where you simply can't physically determine standards? By your logic Brazil, India and many other piss poor capitalist failing countries are sooo rich, right? Belorussian people OWN MEANS OF PRODUCTIONS and not individual capitalists that suck dry out wealth of countries. And what does Belarus has to do with Russia? They both have completely 2 different politeconomic systems. [authoritarian regime] - Define authoritarianism for me, because I bet you don't even know what does that word mean.

***** Egils Helmanis Raivis Zeltīts Mārtiņš Bērziņš Igors Šiškins and many other from neo-nazi NPO called Pērkonkrusts. Let's not forget why 16th March day exists, dummy.

***** [u don't even know why it exists] - Oh yeah? Then maybe explain? I dare you. :) [Pērkonkrusts is just an ancient Latvian entographical ornament] - Uhuhuh, yeah lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%93rkonkrusts lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igors_%C5%A0i%C5%A1kins So is swastika just an ancient ornament. Just because you are empty as brick, doesn't mean it does not exist.

***** I never said anything about symbols to start with, you illiterate idiot. [Watch more russian propoganda] - What propaganda exactly? Don't start your pathetic essay without argument.

and this is why Latvia needs videos like this one! Economy doesn't happen by magic in one day.

this is tottaly not true like me im living a normal life im not poor or rich iim in the middle so as all my familie ar in the middle you could say and i dont think im the only one in latvia who has a normal job and lives a life where you can dress yourself,eat and have some money for the train and other stuff!

Blatantly false. Russia is a dead end for Latvian economical success. Partnership with the West, more specifically, Germany and the United States, can boost our economy many times in the short and long runs.

-Stealer-L1F3 stupid polish guy with washed by american propaganda brains. Look at the location of Russia and U.S. Only Russians can give us the best conditions to earn money by international shipping and average business. Russians - are the saviors Latvia and EU - for you!!! Don't forget this little nationalistic kid!!!

TheRovenholm Polish? WTF? Russians are actually the reason why our economy is fucked. They have a monopoly on European gas import, therefore the price tag is sky high. That's severely impacting the economy. So what if the US is an ocean away? Modern technologies have no distance barrier on a single planet, so the US can be as close as one click away.

What you're talking about is true, but what I don't understand about people is... almost nobody is actually doing anything about this situation. I have heard the talk about pensions and babushkas and whatnot million times already and I'm just sick of it, because usually it is used by demagogues to fish votes in next elections ''look at the images of these poor pensioners, workers, leading party is corrupt, we will take place and Latvia will become prosperous''. In what way?? What is your long term strategy? Because I'm sorry, but if you say that in 4 years, we'll have 700 euro minimum salary it's BS... It will never happen, because economics. There are few people with quiet voices who actually talk about long term strategy and possible solutions for these problems, but I have no use of thousands of people who just mutter something under their noses about ''corrupt government'' and that's all. And I hate these discussions, because they're dumb. People don't know sh** about economics, they believe that money grows on trees and if only government was willing, it could tomorrow raise salaries 2-3 times and if only 10 people who receive 5000 euros from state budget salaries were cut in half, all the pensioners would live in paradise. Economic situation of Latvia is not a trivial question and it deserves a serious, knowledgeable discussion, but people on internet or muttering something to you on the street when you meet them, don't and won't change anything... because saying that everyone is corrupt etc. is also trivializing the conversation.

lkrnpk Apart from talking, what future do you envisage for Latvia? What is the long term strategy do you bespeak of? We live in a world of globalization where it's cheaper to grow and import garlic from China than to grow it on Latvian soil. It's not only Latvia stuck in this global game. It's cheaper to catch shrimps in Danish waters, ship them to Africa to get them cleaned by locals and ship them back to Denmark stores. As long as this type of thinking goes, the less developed countries are the winners. Well, until it all levels up. Personally, I liked the big push theory in eco, whereas all the spheres of production are developed complimentary to each other, from making bread to steel. The theory works in the ideal circumstances given the country is self-sufficient, but within the framework of globalization it doesn't. Again, if it's cheaper to produce steel in China or buy better grade stainless steel in Germany, who would ever look at a country that sells steel twice as expensive? To my mind, we don't have an international product, abundant raw natural resources or human resources that would make us stand out and prosper, like Germany - BMWs and Mercedes, U.S.A. and Japan - technology, Russia and OPEC - oil, China - cheap and for the most part workaholic labor force (if we were to compare to other countries). Although the video mentions the tri-lingual labor force as one of our strongest sides, we don't have "brains" like the Japanese. Also I haven't heard of a scientific invention in Latvia recently. These seem rather minor if we were to look on a grater scale. Again, I'm sorry if I offend anyone. Although Latvia doesn't have a renown international product, it has national products that stand out. Lauma, Rīgas Balzams and Grindex come to my mind, but like you said, these are no use for thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of people. These separate success stories won't form budget for a whole country. At 1:22 we see a cargo ship "Herberts" full of timber, ready to be exported to other countries. Selling forests for exports, which is one of the up sides of Latvian eco, is not a solution since it comprises about 15% of GDP. I'm happy to see Latvia has its own furniture produced on the spot here in Latvia. Maybe I'm wrong, but in my opinion this could be taken even further by cutting down timber exports. Instead of exporting timber elsewhere and wait while some IKEA makes the furniture for us and sells it to us, we could produce and specialize on a wide spectrum of furniture. However, forests won't last forever and they don't grow like mushrooms after the rain. At 2:55 the so called overachievers are starting to flee the country in search of a better future, primarily Western EU. Think keeping salaries low for the educated students will keep them home? Better be educated at home and sometimes unemployed or underpaid than work a grab-and-carry job as an immigrant elsewhere while making same amount of money? Yet again, if the students are so well-educated, where are all the scientific inventions? Geographical location alone won't help us much. Trade happens all of the time, whether peace, international tensions or even war. In the light of the recent events, however, I bet Russia would develop its own ice-free port in the Saint-Petersburg. That might hurt the transits of the ice-free ports in Latvia. To sum up, unless we have strong cards of the economic game (either natural resources, human resources or an internationally renown product that would out-compete any single country out there) we can't expect high prosperity. The EU won't fund us forever. The video presents Latvia as a hub, not as a major factory producer. A hub, either for transit, for export or as a production-investment ground for the international companies. The message conveyed to Latvians is clear: go to university, await investors, chop wood, do transit.

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