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[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gini is wealth and income inequality, which is States in the page you linked. In developed nations, income inequality is strongly correlated to wealth inequality.

The Gini index for Russia was 0.88; the US was 0.85. There was more of a delta between US in 2008 and US 2021 than that. There's more difference between the US and almost every other western developed country in 2021, than there was between Russia and the US in 2021. Russia is higher; it's not much higher.

The US entered into it when you replied to the comment:

Average monthly salary in USD: $1256

the only possible reason was to put it in US context. Not just USD, but US salary, which is specifically a US thing. Your reply was that it was a huge deal in Russia because of wealth inequality, implying, via your response to a comment about US salaries, that it wouldn't be a huge deal in the US. To which I suggested it was, because the US, too, has a wealth disparity similar to Russia's.

What's confusing about that?

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