Incidentally this is in the exact same vein as articles where they are trying to make it seem like the Russian economy is not doing well because it is “overheating” (growing “too fast”), or because the amount of job vacancies (i.e. employers looking for employees to hire) has increased. What they are really saying is that it is bad that Russia now has very low unemployment and that workers have more leverage over employers due to the fact that there is a demand for labor. The effect of this is of course that wages are going up. Again, good situation for the majority of the country, especially since inflation is much more under control in Russia than in much of the West…not so good for those who want to have an easier time exploiting workers since now the reserve army of labor has shrunk.

But of course western media always need to find a way to make it seem like it is bad that other countries are objectively improving the lives of the majority of their people. That’s something only these evil authoritarian states do, you see? And aren’t you so glad that here in the democratic free world we do the opposite of that and always craft policies to benefit the 1% at the expense of the rest?