Living a life of luxury then. Wining and dining on Bordeaux, Camembert, caviar, little tongue-teasers. Mad Vlad is really taking care of his people.
Maybe if they’d quit eating all that avacado toast every morning.
Stop buying rotisserie chicken and maybe they could afford something other than food /s
Which brings to mind my idea for regime change in russia. Here me out here, first of all, we engineer an alcohol shortage, we sabotage their vodka refineries, (said to personally be owned by putin, which is traditional going back to the tsars,) and the rest. Then when the people are in a clamour in a sober fury, we hack into the state tv broadcast and submit a deepfake of Putin asking why the people just don’t drink Champagne if the vodka is out.
Alcoholism is not the source of a problem, but the symptom. (Although in my personal opinion, people of course should drink less, not just in Russia)
Not really. I don’t live in Russia at the moment, but I know the context pretty well. The percentage of people who can afford that kind of stuff is insignificant; lots of people live close to or below the bare minimum. Now, there will be a small % that can afford delicacies, but I wonder if those people really would spend 40% on food only.
That comment was probably satire.
Ah! 😅 But you never know, I sometimes encounter the most weird statements about Russia.
…or maybe I just can’t detect the sarcasm:)
Its probably a mix of both. Its always interesting to see what kind of statements get thrown around regarding russia
That graph is so off. Why is 12-15% half of 40%?
Didn’t we have a misleading graphs community at some point?
Because it was made with AI of course
That source is kind of wonky. It’s just a picture posted somewhere with a not-verifiable source written on it, so there is not a lot to say about this. But if those are real statistics from russia: We kind of know that russia is totally faking their statistics for propaganda reasons and if they publish that statistic, the reality will be much, much worse. And 40% seems to be the average here. Which means that there will be many people on the lower end of the income scale who have to spend a bigger amount.
There is a Reuters article quoting a UN representative with the 40% number from 2022. So this is really old news.
So its probably around 70% by now?
Wouldn’t a better comparison be what all essentials cost? Food here is single digit % of my income but having a roof is more like 75%.
If we ever get the mortgage paid off we will live like kings! 32 years to go…
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I would be interested
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Thanks a lot, that was quite interesting to read.
That is interesting, so fairly comparable to UK prices for basics like oats and root veg if I look at what I normally spend in Aldi. But a full time minimum wage here is £25k and while housing is expensive if you house share it can become quite a bit easier to get by.
I keep hearing energy is expensive in Europe but I only bought a house after the price rises so I don’t really have a comparison, no gas as I have a heat pump but I don’t really pay attention to water or energy use because they are both so cheap its not really something I have thought to bother about. They are a tenth of my mortgage.
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Oh wow, my electrical bill is about £100 a month and I am currently nice and warm too. I think it dropped from about 27p/kWh to 24 somewhat recently, don’t think it ever went over 30 but the media was shit at reporting on it. Instead of the actual rates they would always report on it based on what they felt was an average usage.
Probably a lot if recently empty apartments in Russia.
If any Russians suddenly start getting invitations from their hungry-looking neighbors who want to have them over for dinner, maybe don’t accept.
They will be fine for now. If you notice the rat problem has gone away then perhaps.
I do feel bad for the poor rats caught up in this.
In all seriousness, I know a grandma who narrowly escaped a couple adults who wanted to eat her as a child during the siege of Leningrad. To this day she refuses to waste any food.
From the USA and food prices are closer to 20-30% of my income now. I do have a family though.
There was a discussion earlier when I looked up figures for this, obviously the data is pre-Trump.
People in the US spend so little on food because they spend much more on insurance, rent and vehicle maintenance than Europeans.
Disposable income is a similar proportion, with the US average being a bit more on absolute terms, while the EU average being a bit more on PPP.
In any case this is an IIRC bit, so I might be wrong.
They must be eating too much rotisserie shashlyk and avocado borscht.
We should not only look at the percentage of spendings for food but the costs of living in general. Then the european will not look that much better in comparison as we have high costs for apartments. Still if the picture is true that is still concerning.
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This is not happening because of sanctioning, since food and essential goods aren’t sanctioned. This is solely on the the corrupt Russian dictatorship and its war.
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The russians are not starving; Russia is not dependent on food imports. This only means, that prices went up or salary went down and that russians cant afford as many luxury goods as before
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