Increasing number of billionaires is a bad sign for Russia

Comment taken over the phone.

“There is at least economic growth in the country, but we have an extremely uneven distribution of wealth due to corruption and lack of democracy. The opacity of social processes leads to the fact that social inequality is worsening. But the most important thing that I would like to note is that among this There is no list of many billionaires. Surely people at the top of the bureaucratic pyramid could be included in this list, but due, again, to the opacity of all procedures and the lack of democracy, we do not know them, I am sure that there are many more of them.

If we had a large middle class, then having a large number of billionaires would be nice, but given the degree of social inequality in our country, the recorded increase in the number of billionaires is rather a bad sign for our country.”