We remain a country of screaming inequality. The richest 10% of Russians have the total financial income is almost 14 times larger than the poorest 10%. These impassive figures of Rosstat reflect not just established in the spring of 2020 socio-economic realities. They in – inescapable drama stuck in the poverty of millions of people, with monthly income of 7-10 thousand rubles. In them – the evidence of a regressive development of the state, the chronic inefficiency of the system, its institutionalized injustice.
At the end of the first quarter the share of the 10% most affluent working Russians accounted for 28.6% of the total amount of money income, while the share of 10% of less secured – only 2.2% of the total amount of incomes of the population. Recall that this is the official data of Rosstat, retaining only the “visible” Finance. So, Senegalese incomes of less than 7 thousand rubles per month received 4.2% of Russians, from 19 thousand to 27 thousand rubles – for 19.3%, from 27 thousand to 45 thousand to 24.6%, from 45 thousand to 60 thousand, or 9.1%, more than 100 thousand rubles per month to 2.4%.
What is behind these dry figures? Life by 7 thousand rubles – this is really dark for 7 million people, lives on bread and potatoes. And one in five with an income of up to 27 thousand, is forced to wear old clothes, to save on food and drugs, to refuse services to quality private healthcare.
And here’s another global study, which the authors (holding “ROMIR” and the Association of GlobalNR) asked residents of 10 States of their social problems. People from India, Brazil and Russia responded affirmatively to the question whether “the gap between rich and poor is a big problem” in their country: 86%, 85% and 84%, respectively. In a sense, it was the recognition of our citizens in their own material, financial inferiority.
this Is the system. In Russia an extremely low minimum wage, says the Professor of Financial University under the government of the Russian Federation Alexey Prong. For example, in passing through the capitalist transformation of Eastern Europe was once implemented EU standards under which the minimum wage can not be below the notional €500 (we have at the current rate is 3 times less). The downside of this practice is the high cost of labor and high taxes. Our government carry out that policy, not very good from the point of view of ethics and leading to higher prices than in the West, of social differentiation. In particular, in Russia is less than the income tax rate, there is a progressive scale. Accordingly, the rich are richer, the poor poorer, due to lower social security payments.
If you look from a purely economic “point of view”, there is a question of personal productivity, directly affecting the income and welfare of the employee. We have no more than 10% of the workforce zanato in the field with high performance: energy industry, Finance, IT-sphere. As said Prong, if people do not have the necessary qualifications and education, no skills dealing with complex technologies, their performance leaves much to be desired. They can’t create intellectually rich product with high added value. And business in turn is not interested to invest in any high-quality personnel or complex equipment. Hence the huge gap in average wages across sectors: in “Naftogaz”, they exceed 100 thousand rubles, in agriculture fall short to 20 thousand.
We have lived in a society which declared universal equality. However, in reality, the party nomenclature was spetsraspredeliteli and spetspayki, and the people nothing, reminds senior researcher Institute for economic policy. Yegor Gaidar, Sergei Zhavoronkov. With regard to the current global situation, in the opinion of the interlocutor of “MK”, the income gap between rich and poor remains a universal phenomenon. For example, in the United States it is even greater than in Russia: from 3 thousand dollar billionaires (Forbes list) of 600 Americans. However, lark says, this does not make US a country of wild capitalism: the minimum salary there is quite decent – from $7.25 per hour. But why then is there such a number of rich people? They appear when there are favorable conditions for doing business, which include, primarily, the absence of the public sector. When you have bloated public sector, as in Russia, it is very difficult to compete with individual entrepreneurs. And in America, even prisons and nuclear power plants – private.
we will Add that by itself, the income gap between rich and poor is not so terrible, if there are social mobility, if there is a prospect to get rich by investing in education and striving for new professional heights. But when an honest effort is not only not rewarded, but are ashes, then what’s the point trying?
