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Just to add some numbers for context, in 1980 the US poverty line family income was ~ $8k year. In the USSR the MEDIAN family income was ~1200 rubles a year, wh
by pxmpxm 2y ago
Just to add some numbers for context, in 1980 the US poverty line family income was ~ $8k year. In the USSR the MEDIAN family income was ~1200 rubles a year, which is around $400/year using the real exchange change.
People in the west have no grasp at the level of abject poverty that communism creates.
- hcarvalhoalves 2y agoSo to prove your point, you picked the richest country in the west to compare with the USSR, but generalized to “people in the west don’t know what poverty is”. The “west” is more than the US you know, unless you’re not talking about this side of the meridian.
- pxmpxm 2y agoPick your favourite country in "the west" and you will end up with the same conclusion, since you're like 2 orders of magnitude off.