In Russia, almost half of the population is on the verge of poverty. "We have a high pre-poverty rate, about 40% in total. 30-40% of people near the poverty line is very bad," said economist Dmitry Belusov recently. According to him, the residents of Russia who find themselves on the brink of poverty have no financial support. That's why any risks, whether it's loss of jobs, decrease in income or increase in prices, will lead them below the poverty line. "Pre-poverty" - how beautiful this capitalist speech is! Better to say not pre-poverty, but "negative pre-wealth". And so it is in everything. Not homeless - but residents of negative housing. Not a crisis, but pre-prosperity. Not a war, but a pre-world. Not the unemployed, but the pre-employed. If you constantly engage in self-deception, telling yourself that everything is fine, that life is getting better, then the problems created by capitalism's irreconcilable systemic contradictions will resolve themselves, right?