No way in heck is Russian income higher than China’s
It’s probably the cause of “average” wage being inflated. I remember reading in 2022 i think that the median wage in China overtaken Polish one even in absolute numbers (i think it was about industry though), same for the greenness of Poland here, the average wage here is incredibly inflated by the most exploitative jobs, gigs, trash jobs, fake selfemployment etc. not being counted at all towards it.
I didn’t expect Iraq, Algeria and Libya to be in the red. Most of the Arab World is poorer than I thought!
For Algeria everything is just cheaper in here and protectionism barely lets anything in, we get paid less but it barely matters
How is HK income so much higher than mainland income
Hong Kong is an economic hub of commerce becuase of its strategic geography. That is why the British Empire colonize Hong Kong and why the Pax Americana use Hong Kong as an example of Capitalism and ‘benefit’ of colonialism with the assumption that geography of Hong Kong does not affect its economic success.
Also HK is a city while mainland encompasses poorer rural areas
It’s important to remember that a lot of this data is biased. It doesn’t consider the subsistence farmers and people who obtain resources without the market. Nor does it take into account cost of living.
If you think about it, people who live “on less than a dollar per day” literally wouldn’t be able to live if they faced the same cost of living as people in western societies.
I’m not saying that these people are as rich as westerners (they aren’t), but the gap is exaggerated by the liberal worldview.
And in the other way, especially accounting for costs of living. Poland, Lithuania and Estonia in the same cathegory as Switzerland or Luxembourg is like the joke about man and dog having averagely three legs.
