The car does not pay its way. Somebody else always has to pay the bill. If influential people are going to move out and take the money and ideas with them, the Czechs will have a real unraveling of what is now a very functional, admirably social and political landscape. There is a new consumer boom, and the speed of change cannot be handled by the old structures. That may be true but you do not have to build the wrong new ones.
Speed has nothing to do with it.
You can build all sorts of structures. Single-family housing is the stupidest way to absorb rapid change. But this new phase is yet another rapid change that catches a rather old, inefficient institution off guard. America built public housing as bad as the Communist apartment-block monstrosities in Eastern Europe. None of what is happening now in Central and Eastern Europe is inevitable.