The population in Ukraine after the war can be 30 million. This is a problem. People are an economy
In the economy there is a concept of fixed costs, "fixes". These are costs that (almost) do not change with a change in production. The country's scale is: roads/rail/airports, defense, government and more. The smaller the population, the more expensive each of us will all do.
Or, if it is impossible to reach an equilibrium price (the price that consumers are willing to pay, which covers the average total cost of the corresponding production volume), on the long horizon will have to give up infrastructure, simplify. It also applies to a business that depends on domestic demand. Modern new mail would not grow up to the current state of 25 million in the country.
It is simply insufficient market for the creation of high -tech, capital intense logistics without external investment. By the way, Nova Poshta has already announced its entry into the Poland. 2. The more and the more different population, the more complex social processes it can support, the more it can generate and embody ideas that need complexity and cooperation.
Translated from abstract into practical: in an arbitrary cafe of the conditional crooked horn can accidentally cross the birthdays of the Aitovets, steelwar, entrepreneur, philosopher, engineer, agrarian, social activist, military. And in such a "broth" something new and cool can emerge. Not even true. Only in such a "broth" can a whole class of new and cool things be born. With depopulation, the complexity and diversity of such "broth" and social processes sometimes degrade.
What does it all mean to us? What shall I do? I will distinguish three things: 1. Unprofitable work with EU countries, so that they contribute to the return of Ukrainians back to Ukraine after the war, not purposefully assimilated them as this Germans are now. We need to convey to Europeans that a rich and complex Ukraine as a partner and an EU member more beneficial to them more than even a few million skilled labor. Win-win instead of Zero Sum Game. 2.
Each regulation that makes a return to Ukraine is less desirable, and hired work in Ukraine is less attractive, and for the employer, and for the worker - bad and harmful. 3. After the war, we need to become a super open and hospitable country for all emigrants from other countries. Everyone who is not a criminal and graduated at least high school should be welcomed and integrated. Uzbeks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Iranians, Nigerians . . . Yes, both Russians and Belarusians.
Especially Russians and Belarus. For them, it may be a separate, thoughtful and confident policy of admission and assimilation that will cover the risks to the country's security and risks of ethnic conflict. My Russophobia will also bloom every day, but I understand that after the victory will have to step on the throat of this Russophobia and pull out all conscious from the territory of the North and Northeast Failed States. And yet - programs for volunteers from the West.
To quit: Come, help rebuild our country. Teach our children, treat our soldiers, this is your official contribution to the best future of the world. It should be sex, the benefit we have PRs that can pack it. But in addition to the wrapper should be filling. There are probably other important steps. This topic should be in our public discourse, you need to think and prepare. This is critical for recovery.