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Similar dynamics arose in late 60s in the USSR and 20 years later it disintegrated.
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
Similar dynamics arose in late 60s in the USSR and 20 years later it disintegrated.
- lucozade 11y agoFortunately, since then, someone spotted that causation and correlation occasionally differ. Phew. Bullet dodged.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoI was actually implying two non-interrelated casuations of same trend.
- _yosefk 11y agoSimilar dynamics in what way? Certainly there was no nominal wealth inequality in the USSR (there were of course people with wads of illegally obtained cash, and there were classes of people with access to a lot of things [which money couldn't legally buy] that the majority could not access, but officially wealth and income were very similar for everyone, in particular you couldn't legally own most sorts of assets traditionally held by investors, including real estate. So I wonder what sort of inequality correlated with life expectancy inequality in the USSR in the late 60s.)
- guard-of-terra 11y agoInequality of education, inequality of place of living (city vs town vs village, different republics)