If everyone earns 2x but everything costs 2x, what changes?
As an example cars are produced everywhere around the world but the same product costs roughly the same regardless of geography.
This way in rich countries people can afford domestically manufactured cars, while in poor countries they can't.
The starting salary of a supermarket worker is 2x that of the UK. But a software developer's salary is only a fraction more than in the UK.
The effect is that the range of inequality across the population is reduced. It's a social democracy, so in general the population like this arrangement.