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This creates financial incentive to send these expensive soldiers to their deaths as soon as possible.
That’s a lot of money in a country like Russia
If they ever get a dime of it.
Maybe they just print the money. Isn’t that what dictatorships often end up doing?
Yeah but if they send these troops to the areas that are most deadly, then they don’t have to pay them for very long in the first place.
No need to print the money if you’re not actually spending it.
I invite them to do that. I’m sure the oligarchs will love having their local savings massively devalued, and won’t support a coup of any kind. /s
As much as I would love that, probably they don’t have their fortune in cash savings but most probably put it into diversified investments of some sorts.
I’m guessing both, so they get returns and still have an “oh shit” fund. I doubt it would be good for the oligarchs, at the very least.
Venezuela can do hyperinflation because they have a more ideologically driven elite who will ride out the turbulence. No such luck for Putin; he’s a neofeudal lord and has to keep palms greased like it.
Yeah true
That’s above median individual income in the US
Our troops get paid less too
We also don’t send them to die en masse in human wave attacks.
True, and when they do get deployed, there’s, like, a McDicks and a Pappa John’s that deploys with them. And all the equipment is up to date and works (which is something even by Western standards).
@CanadaPlus @slumlordthanatos we need harder 2ndary sanctions. Still too much money they earn. #fuckrussia
$60k a year to go die on someone else’s land. Seems like a bad deal.
The ol’ bait-and-switch
Moscow calls this Operation Burgermeat.
Considering the average life expectancy, what does that work out to in pay per day?
The average life expectancy of Russian front-line troops who die is 4.5 months ($444/day).
The average life expectancy of Russian men born around 2000 is 60 years ($4.57/day*).
Data:
https://istories.media/stories/2023/09/21/ot-povestki-do-pokhoronki/
$2.74/day
Jesus Christ, I didn’t expect it to be that bad. That’s Africa shit, and these are the guys that did some of the colonising, rather than being subjected to it.
Edit: Because it’s not. it works out to more like $15/day, if we trust official numbers. That must be a minimum you’re using or something.
It varies massively by region, though, because some of those colonies are still inside.
60k per year works out to about 164 per day, no matter when you die.
That’s okay buddy, Wilshire understood the question and already answered it
Get the money up front.
They’ll be getting maimed “up front”. No need for money then.
I’m a billionaire, just because I say it doesn’t mean it is true lmao
Might as well, don’t have to pay out if they
die, go MIA
