Orthodox businessman Malofeev made a proposal to abolish pensions in Russia
The oligarch, who adheres to Orthodox values, opposes the social dependence of elderly Russians.
Konstantin Malofeev, founder of the Tsargrad holding company and businessman, is in favor of abolishing pensions for Russians born after 1995. In his opinion, this will encourage young people to have as many children as possible to provide for their parents in the future. Now citizens under the age of 30 ostensibly rely on the coming old-age pension and therefore do not seek to create families, he believes. “Pensions have replaced children… The generation of current pensioners has no children, because first Soviet and then liberal state propaganda agitated to live first for Komsomol construction sites, and then for themselves. These people will not give birth to anyone to correct their low childbearing. But with regard to future pensioners – today’s youth – such a measure could be very promising,” the businessman said.
Malofeev recalled that in the Russian Empire pensions were given only to a limited number of people, despite this “every woman gave birth to an average of seven children” and no one waited for money from the state. And after the revolution, the average number of children in a family decreased to three because of the announcement of “universal equality,” when women began to work in heavy male professions, the businessman said. According to him, the situation only worsened in the future: “girls went to institutes and began to make a career,” and in the 1990s, self-realization, “personal freedom, money and consumerism” and in general “became the goal of life,” as a result, the number of children per woman decreased to 1.4.
“Why not announce that pension contributions to the Social Fund will cease to be collected in 10 years, and that citizens, for example, born in 1995 will not receive a state pension at all? The pension fees already collected from their salaries will be transferred back to them. Accordingly, let them decide for themselves in their 30s whether to save their money or give birth to children who will not leave them in their old age,” Malofeev summarized. In response, Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation, reminded that social security of Russians is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Meanwhile, Russia may face the need to raise the retirement age to 80 years old after 2050. Such a forecast is contained in the VCIOM report. In particular, it talks about “demographic winter”, which will come in a few decades without migration and robotization, while maintaining current trends in birth rates, as well as current mortality rates and life expectancy. As a result, Russia’s population will halve by the end of the 21st century. Independent demographer Alexei Raksha said that he considers this scenario to be the most realistic.
According to Rosstat’s official forecast, Russia will lose 12.7 million people in 2023-2046 as a result of the excess of mortality over birth rate. The number of children and adolescents in the country by the early 2040s will decrease by 26% – from 27.2 to 20 million, and their share in the population will fall from 18.5% to 14.2%. The share of pensioners, on the contrary, will increase from 24.5% to 26.9% in 2046.
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