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Bomb under stability
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Bomb under stability
November 16, 2012 Sergey Aksenov
Russia is again ahead of the planet. But this time not “in the field of ballet”, but according to the indicator of the ultra -high concentration of wealth. This became known from the next, for 2012, Global Wealth Report, published by Credit Suisse. Its leading experts in the field of measuring the distribution of wealth Anthony Shorrox and James Davis issued a verdict: Russia is the world of injustice.
These are the numbers are given in their report. 1% of the richest Russians account for 71% of all personal assets in Russia. Almost three quarters! And this despite the fact that in the US competing with us (of course, competing, we compete with them throughout our history and constantly refer to their example), such an indicator is 37%. In Europe, as, by the way, in China - 32%, and in Japan only 17%.
Also, Russia in world leaders in terms of the most wealthy 5% of the population - they have 82.5% of the country's personal wealth, and the most wealthy 10% of the population - 87.6%. The last figure is just a dream of mathematics. It turns out that 1/10 of the country's population has 9/10 of all income. Beautiful?
In addition, Swiss experts throw a stone in our wealthy compatriots-millionaires from the Forbs list. They pay attention to the fact that these lucky ones belong to a third of all assets in the country, which is not close anywhere in the world. In the same USA or China, billionaires control a maximum of a few percent of all assets.
These numbers should be read slowly, thoughtfully, visibly imagining what is behind them. Here is Roman Abramovich, modestly smiling aboard the next yacht, but the government official, secretly from his wife, walking rollbacks to Monte Carlo. There are opposition representatives in our video sequence, and children crying somewhere in the Kuzbass miner village from hunger children. All this leaves a firm sensation of some universal injustice-the vast majority of the country's population was arrogant from its wealth.
These are the results of privatization twenty years ago. Twenty years - a long time, the life of a whole generation, and the results can already be summed up. And they are disappointing. The title of world injustice is all that Russia and Russians received. And how to live on now? It is not surprising that in the opposition it becomes more and more popular with the slogan “Take and divide!”. The slogan, of course, is controversial, causing many idiosyncrazia, however, expressing the mood of a very significant part of society. And you have to reckon with it.
We are talking about revising the results of privatization. The situation when the Soviet ministers and their deputies privatized the tidbits of state property (the history of the creation of Lukoil) or the newly -minted oligarchs paid insignificant amounts for the companies standing billions (Norilsk Nickel, Yukos) cannot be recognized as normal. Until it is allowed in the interests of the majority, the public world in Russia will not come. And no tales of “effective owners” will help. Ask any owner, does he consider himself “ineffective”? That's the same!
I note that the requirement of a more fair distribution of wealth in the country refers not so much to the field of economics as to the psychology of the people. The feeling of justice is the main goal of a revision of the results of privatization, and not at all the opportunity for the majority to acquire certain additional material goods. This is primarily necessary for the nouveau riches themselves. Life on a powder barrel can hardly be called happy.
By the way, they understand this very well. It is not without reason that they are perhaps the most striking representative - Boris Berezovsky (no matter how much you relate to him, but he is an order of magnitude more creative than his brothers in the class) - has long spoke about the need to bring a one -time tax that will secure the rights of the oligarchs to the property that he received. In fact, he offered the rich once and for all to pay off from society. Proposed correctly.
That is, the question is not whether it is necessary to revise the results of privatization at all, but how exactly this is done in order to satisfy all layers of society. Question in technology.
I would personally propose a redemption of assets at the expense of the budget at the price of their acquisition. With the adjustment for inflation, after all, 20 years have passed. The oligarchs, of course, will say that this is a robbery in broad daylight, but someone will answer this: robbery loan! The most reasonable thing is to solve this issue in the All -Russian referendum. Otherwise, egregious inequality will constantly threaten such stability so beloved by many.