Economic inequality, the root of poverty in Macedonia

Macedonia is among the top five poorest countries in Europe with Ukraine leading. Wikipedia defines poverty as a state or condition in which one lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living. This relativized and subjectivized definition (which is still more precise than that of the Oxford dictionary, which defines poverty as "the state of being poor") foregrounds the lack of money as the root of the emergence of poverty. Macedonian society is often labeled as capitalist and consumerist, and in it money can be obtained legally by working. Yet what if, in exchange for their own invested labor, the worker receives only an insufficiently small part of the "pie" that is clumsily eaten by those who consider themselves to own it? Can the label "exploitative" be added to society? "Macedonia has on record the highest income inequality in Europe, where the 1% at the top of the income distribution in the country keep 14% of the total income, while one percent has a monthly income of over 1523 euros and 50% have less than 212 euros a month." The Internet search engine Google singles out exactly this quote as the first answer when the words "income inequality Macedonia" are entered in the search field. However, you will find almost nothing on this topic in the mainstream media in the country. None of the political entities are talking about it. You won't hear anything about economic inequality even in public debates on debate television shows where, like a conspiracy reality show, the same experts appear continuously, often in different roles as apologists for the needs of implementing a policy. But that's why you'll hear a lot about history—most of the time, the current social (de)focus is on some historical problem. History, on the other hand, according to Harari, is "something that very few people did while everyone else was plowing fields and carrying buckets of water." Namely, this author says that: "Until the late modern era, more than 90 percent of people were peasants who got up every morning to work the land with the sweat of their brow. The surplus they produced fed the tiny minority of elites—kings, officials, soldiers, priests, artists and thinkers—who filled the history books." It seems that very little has changed in Macedonia today, doesn't it?