Comrades! Cast your gaze upon the latest ledgers of the State, and behold the stark reality of our age. The statistics for the first quarter of the year 2026 reveal a truth that the fat-cat financiers would prefer to keep shrouded in fog: the vast majority of the people's earnings—no less than 82.1 per cent—are vanished instantly into the purchase of goods and services.

What does this mean in plain language? It means that the fruit of the labourer's sweat is immediately reclaimed by the merchant class and the monopolies! The bourgeois machine is so finely tuned that the worker barely has time to clutch his wages before they are surrendered to the very masters who exploit him.

Only a meager 14.9 per cent is surrendered to compulsory payments and tributes to the state, while a paltry 2.8 per cent is cast toward the acquisition of property—a dream of ownership that remains, for most, a cruel mirage.

Observe the desperation of the proletariat! The authorities speak of 'changing consumer habits'—a polite, academic phrase for the misery of the poor. The people now hunt for discounts and scramble for the cheapest, most wretched substitutes, fleeing to the digital bazaars of the marketplaces in a vain attempt to survive.

Why this sudden frugality? The answer is as clear as the greed of a loan-shark: real incomes have ceased to grow, while the usurers in the banks have raised the interest rates to extortionate heights. The financial capital has tightened its noose, ensuring that the working man remains a mere cog in the engine of profit, spending every farthing just to keep the hunger from his door!