Rodion_Romanovic Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:45 pm
Aristide wrote:
Maybe Russia should concentrate more on the low living standards of its citizens, after all, the average russian has less than the poorest eastern european EU countries
Maybe you should think about french living standards.
And you cannot compare directly wages in Russia to wages in the west, as you can get more bang for the buck in Russia.
As an example, as you can see in this picture, there are huge areas of poverty in Paris,
And we are not talking just of poor migrants from Africa, there is a lot of poor white people with only french origins (much more than the number of migrants).
So the poorest banlieues are not just inhabited by migrants, but by your french white trash
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Revenus_%C3%A0_Paris_et_Petite_Couronne.JPG
Finally if you look at this website,
https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=69
you can see that in france there is a higher percentage (14.2%) of population below the poverty line than in Russia (13.3%). (US is at about 15%).
My country (Italy), with almost 30%, and Greece, with 36% of the population below the poverty line has in much worse position, by the way, and that is mainly thanks the European reforms