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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
LOL, you are not alone. Our president is doing the same thing. He is lying, lying and lying.
I have no idea. The GDP is an internal thing. GDP in Russia means nothing. I mean literally nothing. For example, in the Great Britain the earnings of street whores are included into GDP (officially!) In other countries your earnings will be included into GDP if you rent a flat or do a private taxi business, for example. Cool, good, great... but not in Russia. We just don't show all that money. Nowhere and to no one. Russians are getting their salaries in envelopes (so nobody knows how many) and course they don't pay tax from that. Do you think that billions of illegal gambling money are declared? Maybe the billions of bribes and oil earnings? So every idiot who looks at the official Russian GDP is a moron. I'd say a complete moron )))) Russian GDP is like this:
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I said per capita/ per head. Also PPP, which is Purchasing parity Power - even the best economy value/ stats among these three.
you may complain that these stats dont work etc. but they do work.
let me reprase my comparision then if you dont believe in "stats"
what can you buy for an average salary in Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg ? which country has the highest level of life for the "average" people ? I think that the answer will be obvious here...
You have similar prices of food, clothes, electronics to the west and you get few times less of salary - on average. The only things that you pay less are services (car mechanic?) and sometimes rent, especially- not-in-Moscow.
so how living in RUS- land is better than living in Scandinavia or some of the PIGS countries ?
Unless you are fucking Lenin from mausoleum that loves 0 degrees Celsius all the time ?
or IT specialist or Gazprom Bonzo ? they dont matter, as they are fine anywhere.