Poverty Forever: Why Russia Is Turning into a Fourth World Country

Publicist Yulia Latynina is confident that Russia is quickly becoming a country of the "fourth world". The fact is that the division of states into three groups, born in the 20th century, no longer works. It used to be that "third world countries" meant states that had lingered in the Middle Ages. But now they are developing at such a pace that they are becoming the most important players in the world economy. For example, China, which has already become the second superpower, in which 400 million people have emerged from poverty over the past three decades into the middle class. The same is happening with India, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia ...

Sane power allows yesterday's third world country to emerge from vegetation into leaders. But instead of yesterday's outsiders, the camp of the fourth world was formed, which already included

Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Haiti, the Palestinian Authority .... The authorities of these countries deliberately set a course for the impoverishment of the population.

The author calls the sale of resources and labor force abroad the main feature of the economy of such countries so that all proceeds go to the ruling elite. And besides, the income from the state monopolies, which the authorities distributed to the security forces, also go into the same pocket.

All other citizens of such countries do not have any access to the economy, and live off the benefits and salaries that the state monopolies pay them. Well, also - they are allowed to run subsidiary plots, small business and fight ...

The authorities justify the apparent impoverishment with propaganda campaigns against the conspiracies of the bourgeois, infidels and colonialists who sleep and see in order to destroy this country ... This is exactly what is happening in Russia, it is becoming a country of the fourth world. In Soviet times, the main slogan was to catch up and overtake America, and now Venezuela or the Palestinian Authority serves as the model.

In the past in human history, rulers generally sought to prosper their citizens as this made power enduring. In pre-industrial times, 90% of the population was engaged in agriculture, simultaneously producing for their own use not only food, but also clothes, building houses, and so on. 9% of the population were engaged in handicrafts in cities. 1% of the elite lived off taxes according to simple rules: 10% of income from a taxpayer. If this percentage increased, then the people rebelled. Now the rules are different ...

Since the craft was replaced by mass industrial production, the population of such countries is relatively easy to dress, and shoe, and feed. Its taxes no longer play the same role in enriching the elite, it feeds on the sale of resources, so that the population may not work at all, it is beneficial to reduce its welfare to the point of impoverishment, and not increase it, as before. In poverty, it is easy to control him.

For example, in the Palestinian Authority many times they tried to create an assembly plant, since the labor force is abundant and it is cheap. But every time the military came, seized everything, assigned themselves huge salaries, and everything collapsed. It is not profitable for the local leadership that people appear who earn their own bread, it is easier for them that they be beggars, and the authorities planted money for them. Well, the only social lift was left for those who want to become a terrorist.

Exactly the same is happening in Russia, where the normal banking system has already been destroyed, and state banks give loans only to court companies, which make up 65% of the total market, and their share is increasing, while the normal market is disappearing.

The authorities see that the size of the wealth is under threat, since hydrocarbons are not eternal, and therefore they are trying to preserve them at the expense of the impoverishment of the population.

It turns out, as in Sicily, which really adores its mafia, since from time to time it gives to the poor "from bounty". This is the main mechanism in the countries of the fourth world.

Therefore, not an engineer who graduated from MEPhI and works for a private company that launches satellites will vote for Putin, but a beggar drunk, Uncle Vasya, who gets an extra glass of vodka. He knows that Putin is saving the country from "fascists" who are trying to bring it to its knees. And he knows that the country does not need engineers from private companies.

So there are departments of theology at MEPhI, sprinkling of rockets with holy water and the like obscurantism.

The regime in Russia is not at all concerned with economic growth; on the contrary, it needs the country to live in poverty, since it is not office workers and the middle class that support it, but the impoverished majority. It is precisely this that will allow him to remain in power indefinitely, like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. The next ten to twenty years will show, according to Latynina's forecast, whether Russia will forever remain a fourth world country forever, or whether its past merits will prevent the country's transformation into Haiti or Zimbabwe.