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Personally, I don't think there's any selfish motive behind what he writes, but rather a desire for security, just like any normal family man. Perhaps it looks like an attempt to defend and justify the regime from your perspective, but from my perspective, as a family man, it looks different. I simply have something to compare it to and something to lose.

Yeah. He didn't experience the previous episode of the barn collapse, but I remember the period of 92-95 very well. Moving with my parents to St. Petersburg, their search for housing and work, the general atmosphere, everyday life. Oh, how I don't want a repeat of that... In '94, I had to start earning money myself - I went to the outskirts to repair computers at people's homes. I don't think I need to tell you what Kupchino was like in '94 at night. The idea of joining a gym and running around the stadium came to me right then. A decline in living standards is not just about having less soup in your bowl; it's also about an increase in crime, the emergence of a large number of uncontrollable risks, and all sorts of unexpected events. Therefore, those who say, "Let's get rid of Putin, and we'll be better off" evoke a mixture of pity and disgust in me. It's a case where you only learn from your own mistakes, but in the process of making those mistakes, your neighbors also suffer, that is, me. Therefore, I am against learning in this way; I prefer to proactively change minds through discussion.

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There are no problems with the regulatory authorities (they don't come around, probably aware that there's nothing to gain). The problem is with promoting the product. It seems to be in demand, and the price is good, but there are no sales. We already have reliable information about some potential customers that they have their own lobbyists, and the customer buys from them accordingly. It's a common situation, in general. But we are honest! We're just licking the boot...

Well, this is already marketing... it has its own laws. In any case, for a businessman, complaining about difficulties in promoting a product is not a good thing; this is the very purpose of a business - to promote its product. After all, a businessman is not an executor but an inventor. If there are any moral restrictions, then you either need to come up with a way to get around them without violating them, or reconsider them, or leave the business. That is, business problems are a trouble for the state, but for the businessmen themselves, it is a challenge - either I will occupy a good niche, or someone else will. It's roughly like in Heroes - balance is a problem for the developers, but for the players, it's the opposite; the task is to find an overpowered unit and use it effectively. Because, regardless of the game's balance, 50% of the outcomes are wins, and 50% are losses.