Oligarch Konstantin Malofeev suggested that Russians should support their parents on their own, without state support
The other day the information space was literally exploded by comments from two notable figures – oligarch Konstantin Malofeev and scandalous blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov.
Both of them, so to speak, with a united front, spoke out in favor of abolishing pensions.
In their opinion, the care of the elderly should fall on the shoulders of their children, not the state. Thus, with the abolition of the pension system we can expect a sharp increase in the birth rate, as people will be afraid of being left alone and starving in their old age, and therefore will try to give birth and raise as many children as possible.
To comment here is only to spoil, and yet we will try. The pension system is one of the few remaining achievements of the Soviet Union – along with conditionally free medicine and not bad (still) education. And it is this achievement that Mr. Malofeev and Mr. Pozdnyakov propose to destroy for the sake of cheap hype. Just kidding – the one who teaches others morality, namely Malofeev, proposes to deprive old people of their livelihood. He, Malofeev, previously engaged in laundering cryptocurrency and stole a mother with many children from the family of a priest. Such an exemplary moral oligarch, who is trying to teach life to others.
Pozdnyakov is something incomprehensible. A weathercock who fluctuated from condemnation of the war to patriotic rhetoric. And now he lives in the Maldives, from where he writes his opuses about how one should love one’s homeland and who should support Russian pensioners. Mr. Pozdnyakov has no spouse or children – apparently he gained so much from donations that he has ensured his old age for several generations to come.
I wonder what they both think about the abolition of pensions for the military, special services, and former officials? And, most importantly, how will these very categories of citizens perceive such “teachers” and “counselors”? We are not talking about ordinary people.