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Mikhail Prokhorov woke up, looked out the window and was amazed: oh, what is it like, this Russian life! Life without laws, without rules, and, as he now learned, without concepts, too. Whoever has bones and cups in his hands is the king. And the number of billions in the bank or the absence thereof does not change anything at all. Humiliate, humiliate, lower. The only difference is that a person with many and expensive assets is lowered by the highest comrades, all the rest are lowered by those with a lower rank. And what of that? The result is one.
There is no hierarchy in a world without rules. There is a choice - no one can take it away: lick the boot or step on it.
Now Prokhorov, if he is going to stay in politics, will have to learn, in addition to the way he handles the shoe of power, that the whole of everyday Russian reality is built on contempt for any and all rules and procedures. Exactly why one of the richest countries in the world has the most monstrous statistics of murders, deaths and disasters. In comparison with this, the whole story with the raider capture of the Right Cause is a trifle not worth a damn... The pilot of the aircraft, contrary to instructions, allowed to fold 2 tons of cargo in the wrong place, set the stabilizer in the wrong way, contrary to the commands and rules prescribing braking, increased speed. The result - 44 corpses ... The hospital doctor, contrary to the protocol, did not prescribe the necessary examination, following the instructions of the head of the ministry, he told the patient that he did not need the next course of chemotherapy, because the drugs were expensive, and the patient might not want to buy them. Bottom line: another tragedy, children are left without a mother ... A driver with cool numbers against the rules jumps into the oncoming lane, a traffic cop salutes him, the poor Zhiguli has nowhere to go. Bottom line: the ambulance declares death.
And there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of such examples. They make up the lives of those who cannot afford to buy a house abroad, get a flashing light or go to Europe for treatment. And those who can risk another: to lose their business, property, freedom or the right to raise children and grow old in their homeland. There are no rules, bargaining is always unequal: if you keep your business, you lose your dignity, if you keep your dignity, you still lose your business, but besides, you doom yourself to sew mittens in the colony of Krasnokamensk or Segezha. „

The only difference is that a person with many and expensive assets is lowered by the highest comrades, all the rest are lowered by those with a lower rank

” Political philosophy once discussed the question a lot: why did people, naturally free, agree to a superstructure called the state? Why did they give some people who call themselves "power" part of their rights and freedoms, gave them the opportunity to make decisions that affect the organization of their lives with the money of the citizens themselves (taxes)? Then they more or less came to an agreement: people without a state - that football players without a referee, for a “ball” (money, property, power) will kill each other. Or rob. Or to be abused. And so it happened: citizens pay, the state sets the rules for this and makes sure that everyone follows them. People delegated to the state - first of all. The rules are so arranged: either they are, or they are not. If Jupiter violates them, then the bull, contrary to the well-known saying, raises everything around on its horns.
Exactly this happened in the Fatherland. And Mikhail Prokhorov had the pleasure of seeing this from his own experience. And the most active layer of Russia, the businessmen who supported him, once again became convinced of the same. It is better to watch a game without rules from the sidelines, quietly, without sticking out from under the mattress. Perhaps it will carry. It won’t carry over - today, the security forces, just like 8 years ago in the story with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, have received another argument in their hands: if it’s possible with this, from the Forbes list, then it’s even more so with others.
That is why the question of what Prokhorov's next step will be is by no means from a gentleman's smoking room. Will he crawl away, lick his wounds and - run to bow?
You can understand. Another is inexplicable: why does a person need so much money, if the main thing that does not require any - dignity - turns out to be impossible?