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Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

This chart is a brutal reflection of why public frustration toward political elites in many emerging markets continues intensifying because it shows that Indonesian lawmakers are compensated at levels that look extraordinarily disconnected from the underlying economic reality faced by the average citizen, with parliament salary reaching roughly 14.7x GDP per capita, among the highest ratios globally and second only to the Philippines in this dataset, despite Indonesia still remaining a country where purchasing power remains relatively weak, informal employment is massive, public service quality remains uneven, infrastructure bottlenecks persist, legal enforcement often feels inconsistent, and upward economic mobility for large parts of the population remains structurally difficult. And this is precisely why charts like this become politically toxic because citizens naturally begin asking a very simple question: what exactly are taxpayers receiving in return? In high-income countries, lawmakers may also earn very large nominal salaries, but those economies simultaneously generate far stronger productivity, higher institutional quality, better healthcare systems, stronger education outcomes, more efficient bureaucracy, higher legal predictability, and materially better public goods overall, meaning political compensation exists within a much larger and wealthier economic ecosystem. But in Indonesia, the optics become far more uncomfortable because the political class increasingly appears capable of extracting upper-middle-class or even developed-market lifestyles from an economy that still struggles to generate broad-based prosperity for much of the population itself. And perhaps the harshest part is that compensation alone is probably not even the real issue. The real issue is performance. Citizens are generally willing to tolerate highly compensated leaders if the country visibly becomes richer, more efficient, more meritocratic, less corrupt, and economically stronger over time. But when corruption scandals remain persistent, policymaking appears inconsistent, infrastructure projects repeatedly face rent-seeking concerns, and wealth creation remains concentrated among political insiders, conglomerates, and connected elites, high political compensation begins looking less like professionalization and more like institutionalized extraction. Importantly, this also helps explain why anti-elite sentiment, populism, and distrust toward institutions continue rising globally because once the gap between elite living standards and ordinary household realities becomes too visible, citizens increasingly stop believing the system operates primarily for collective national advancement and instead begin viewing politics as a mechanism for self-enrichment among those already close to power. Ultimately, this chart reflects something much deeper than salary levels alone because it exposes the uncomfortable reality that in many emerging markets, the political class often succeeds in upgrading its own prosperity far faster than the nation it supposedly represents, and over time that divergence itself becomes corrosive to institutional trust, social cohesion, and long-term political legitimacy.

LAGIIIII...... INNALILLAHII... 😭😭 2 perempuan juga meninggal karena keracunan asap karbon monoksida dari genset & 2 perempuan temannya masih dirawat di RS. Terjadi saat listrik mati massal di seluruh Sumatra kemarin malam juga. TKP di toko aksesoris HP “Indrapura ACC”, Jalan Lintas Sumatera, Kecamatan Air Putih, Kabupaten Batu Bara, Sumatra Utara. Meninggal: RR (24 tahun), warga Tebing Tinggi AA (22 tahun), warga Serdang Bedagai Dirawat: M (22 tahun) DCA (17 tahun) Kronologi:

“Jangankan 50 juta, 25 tahun punya tabungan 10 juta udah beruntung banget.” Aku pernah punya temen ngomong gitu dan responku langsung jauhin dia, sirkel pertemanan itu penting. Sedari dini seleksi, karena snow ball effect itu nyata. 30 tahun belum punya 100 juta itu kegagalan finansial.

💚 kalian yang usia 26-30an terutama cewe2 yang belum nemu pasangan, sekarang cara kalian gimana buat bisa dpt pasangan? karna gw sendiri jujur agak takut kalo sampe usia 30 belum nikah, untuk karir alhamdulillah udah aman tinggal jodoh aja ini🥹🥲

Dorry’s voice actor Takahiro Fujiwara has sadly passed away on May 14 at the age of 43. Dorry is now voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya.

ini rame banget pas lewat depan DRP kemarin.. kok gak rame ya diberitain di media2 besar? ada apa??🥲

Dua tersangka utama di balik kekerasan sistematis terhadap 53 balita di Daycare Little Aresha, Jogja: 1. Diyah Kusumastuti, S.E. (51), Ketua Yayasan - Beri instruksi verbal langsung mengikat tangan & kaki anak sejak pagi hingga sore. - Rutin datang pagi, melihat langsung, & perintahkan agar dilakukan. - Motif ekonomi, semakin banyak anak semakin banyak uang. - Mantan narapidana korupsi di BPR BKK Purworejo.

Ini board + head of productnya mikir apa ya pas bikin goride hemat... masa bikin product hanya mikir dr sisi perusahaan aja kagak mikir income mitra Lulusan kampus top dunia gk ngejamin bener jg kelakuannya

“politik sih gak ngaruh apa-apa ke hidup gue” sebenernya ngaruh tapi lo gak sadar. bakal jauh makin gampang kok liat dampaknya. belom aja. tunggu aja. dikit lagi…