>>17873549
>Poland could have

That's pretty much the defining element of Polish history.

>>17861296
>Why was it so much harder for businessmen to accumulate insane amounts of wealth under feudalism and monarchism than with democracy?

I guess it doesn't apply because it was a democracy (of nobles) but Polish magnates during the height of the PolLithComm were as rich as kings and had so much political power, the operated their own foreign policies (resulting in Russia's "Time of Troubles").