A Mere Pittance for the Aged: The Bourgeoisie's Feeble Attempt to Soften the Yoke of Poverty

Comrades! Citizens! Cast your eyes upon the latest theatrical performance from the halls of the State Duma. A certain Deputy, one Sergey Mironov, has seen fit to propose a law—a mere scrap of parchment—suggesting that the old-age pension shall not fall below forty per centum of a worker's average earnings from the year preceding his exile into retirement.

Let us examine this 'benevolence' through the lens of cold logic. The bill speaks in the dry, sterile tongue of the bureaucracy, defining a so-called 'replacement coefficient' to ensure that the destitute retiree receives a supplementary payment should their pittance fall below this forty per cent mark.

But I ask you: is this not a calculated deception? The bourgeoisie, those rapacious usurers of the modern age, offer a meager percentage while they have already spent a lifetime draining the vitality and sweat of the toiling masses! To grant a fraction of one's former wage is not an act of mercy; it is a strategic concession designed to prevent the proletariat from rising in a righteous storm against the crushing weight of exploitation.

They tell us, as a further distraction, that since the first of August, the funded pension shall be increased by some seventeen and three-tenths per cent. Bah! A trifle! A mere handful of copper coins tossed to a starving dog to keep it from biting the hand of the master!

We see here the true face of the Monopoly: they calculate our survival in percentages, treating the dignity of the aged as a ledger entry. The financial capital continues its reign, and the working man is left to plead for a forty per cent remnant of the value he himself created. The yoke remains, Comrades, and the struggle against this systemic greed must only intensify!