[marcusmaximus]

The average Russian hourly wage is $4.69 per hour. Not stronk.

[Karl Spooner]

I think your goal is to put everyone in poverty in Russia. It all depends the ultimate out of pocket cost of living. Then there is the hidden national debt that is saddled on every living person. 100,000 for every American, 3,000.00 for every Russian.

"The key OECD indicator for international comparison of poverty is the poverty rate, which is defined as the percentage of people living in households whose income falls below half the median household income of the total population (OECD, 2020).

According to this statistic, the poverty rate in 2016 was 10.4% in Germany, 12.7% in Russia and 17.8% in the United States. From the perspective of qualitative research on poverty in Russia, this figure is astonishing.

In fact, the value for Russia is very close to what the Russian Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat itself indicates as the national poverty rate for 2016 (13.2%), even if they use an absolute poverty line."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468018121996075