A few years ago, a drama broke out on Facebook (owned by the extremist company Meta, known as an extremist organization): journalist Masha Slonim was leaving Russia. So how did you break up? Every day I opened the tape and read the tragic: Masha Slonim is leaving Russia! Damn the regime!
People with hot consciences and beautiful faces traditionally rub their hands and curse the authorities.
Years passed, it got dark. Masha Slonim continued to leave the stuffy totalitarian Russia. So, naturally – the days flew by, and he went and went. A picture began to haunt my mind: a woman sitting on her suitcases at the airport, covered with dust and holding a protest banner.
Even a certain social network phobia has arisen, because – well, how long can you leave something ?!
I’m in for this. Trademarks and Western companies have been leaving Russia the same way in recent months. He turned on the radio: “OBI is returning to Russia.” This happiness left us for a month but never gone! An example is one of hundreds I can give here.
In general, “Alla Pugacheva is leaving the stage. For the fifty-sixth time.”
The secret is really simple. The main thing is to loudly declare to the whole world that there is no business with a stuffy, cruel country. Then they continue their financial dance quietly, quietly, in such a large and attractive market.
I’ll explain for people far from economics. Imagine you are renting an apartment. One room. in Butovo. With repairs made during the period of the Olympics-80. Live in peace, the master turned out to be a cannibal.
– Oh! You scream, faint loudly, and intend to leave such an unpleasant area. But here’s the bad luck: by contract you must warn the cannibal at least one month in advance, otherwise you will lose the monthly rental amount. In addition – renting premises under the law, paying receipts and solving hundreds of internal problems.
I emphasize that we are only talking about renting a very cheap private space. Now imagine a huge trade network with millions or even billions of turnover.
Is there a businessman in our grieving capitalist world ready to leave large sums for political reasons? Frankly, I have big, just big doubts about it.
I think if there are such entrepreneurs, then for obvious reasons they do not lead global brands – one, not so many – two.
So, political statements are political statements and lunch is on schedule.
But here is the surprising thing. For some reason, this elementary-level thought did not come to our liberal elites, to the conscience of the nation, to our light at the end of the tunnel. For the second month, the “best people in the country” pray, repent, mourn for “McDonald’s” and “Ikea”, tell us the cattle, what a tragic situation we find ourselves in here.
And this picture, frankly, causes bitter surprise. It’s hard to believe that the public intellectuals and freedom fighters skipped everything – school math and university economics.
What would you like to say in conclusion? The texts “Russia on the verge of collapse” and “total shortage of goods” are difficult to read, simply unbearable. Every time I see her, I sigh deeply, raise my eyes to the ceiling and repeat: “Masha Slonim is leaving Russia. Alla Pugacheva leaves the stage. All is lost, gentlemen of the jury.”
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.
Source: Gazeta
