I’m also not exactly sure how taxes are supposed to work in a system like this. How does Russia provide survival income for its citizens? There are poor people in Russia, even by Russian’s extreme definition of poverty. More than in the U.S. And consumption level on the edge of U.S. poverty is achievable in Russia only for upper middle class in large cities. It is like:
80% of U.S. poor have air conditioning. In Russia, air conditioning in households is a rarity. Because no built-in air conditioning exists anywhere (maybe just a few super expensive condos in Moscow where […]
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