Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
by myth_drannon on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:50AM
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Nope, that's called a richer diet. Also having an option to buy 50 different varieties of black tea doesn't make someone better off. In the end you are going to drink a tea. I'm not whitewashing history which is quite bleak in that region but too many things are distorted by propaganda. It's all subjective but Russians today are not better than they were 50 years ago despite having the ability to buy iPhones, drive BMWs and eat sushi...
Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:39PM
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> Nope, that's called a richer diet.
It is amusing that use the term "richer" to dispute my claim above that Russians are less poor.
The "locally grown food" in many cases was little more besides white flour and mincemeat. (A situation that still exists in parts of rural Russia.) The only tea that could be drunk was usually a single variety of black tea. I think "poverty" is a reasonable adjective for that state of affairs. The fact that people in urban Russia today do have access to a vastly wider choice of food is a significant advance.