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Income inequality in Russia over the period of the USSR (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by MF_COOM@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Source: Piketty's World Inequality Report 2022

I shared this deep in a dunk thread earlier and figured there's probably many comrades who haven't seen this data. I think it's very good rhetorically because a lot of libs have an incredibly vibes-based impression that the Soviet Union was just an Animal Farm old-boss-same-as-the-new-boss situation.

Instead, this demonstrates that Russia underwent one of the most dramatic inversions of income inequality of any country in recorded history.

For comparison here is the US over the same time period:

China:

And the UK:

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Wonder if the cpcs internal metrics confirm this

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

It's probably true. Liberalisation fucked up China until Xi came along and started curbing the billionaire menace to a degree Greater than many of his predecessors.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

It didn't "fuck up" China, their metrics were still amazing before Xi

I think the biggest mistake before Xi was not being very diligent about corruption

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Billionaires had far more leverage over the government before Xi came in. Add corruption to that and you had insane scandals in China every now and then.

[-] BrownMinusBlue@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Do these graphs also include the disperity of their colonies?

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

No, they're just income within the borders of the country

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[-] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Oh hell yeah save the frying pan graph!

[-] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I know everyone here is doing China discourse here but the honestly not insignificant inequality that remained in the USSR is kinda interesting to see.

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[-] DroneRights@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Is this purely personal income, or does it take into account wealth that passes into funds that government officals had access to? Is this a case of the wealth passing into a government that was still controlled by an elite class, but not in a way that this graph would show?

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