There&#x27;s a difference between a bubble and social optimism, and even if they&#x27;re having a bubble, maybe it&#x27;s better? Because compare to the West, always feeling like they&#x27;re one day from Armageddon, creating economic crises out of thin air (i.e. 2008 in Europe, people hearing there&#x27;s an Economic Crisis and concluding they need not invest until it&#x27;s gone, therefore creating a crisis where it wasn&#x27;t before).<p>Hell, maybe it&#x27;s sort of a rose-colored view of the history, but I look at the communist propaganda in Poland from the times of my mother, and I think I liked it more than what we have now - in the past, the government would show you movies how everything is going forward, how industry is performing over expectations, how hard work of people created prosperity, etc. Yes, they lied to you. But so is every single &quot;free&quot; media station every single day, but now the narration is that everything is going to shit and will probably explode before the commercial break.