Evgeny Petrosyan, Elena Stepanenko and hard workers: "Capitalism is when everyone has you, even clowns"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

There is such a common type of person who achieved everything himself. I talked to these people many times in Moscow. They love to remember how they arrived in this very Moscow with one pair of shoes and two phone numbers and, thanks to perseverance and a head that turns on in time, reached a good financial level. Well done.

Another thing is that, according to the laws of the genre, these guys are sure that almost every person in Russia can do the same if he is not lazy.

A huge number of people consider capitalism a good economic system: private property, legal equality, free enterprise - sounds good. Go and earn yourself an apartment, a car, and a new wife. You are no longer hindered by monarchists, anarchists, or damned communists.

You can get up well by sitting in one of the offices that sell coffee machines, cars, cigarettes or cookies. And people go and earn because they can.

Hard workers live by hard work, cheap alcohol and a vegetable garden, if the place of residence permits. Hard workers do not watch art-house movies and do not take tickets to the Park Live festival to listen to the political statements of Massive Attack, they learn about theatrical premieres from the federal news, and in Moscow they are only on duty.

Our country is supported by hard workers (they are also called "ordinary people", as if those who have warmed up in Moscow are complex people), and if they were not there, then all 4 million Moscow offices could be demolished.

Well, imagine this picture. This very hard worker, having returned home after a hard day at work, is going to have supper. His wife picked something up in the garden, made a salad, put on a glass of moonshine, they turn on the TV - a news program, they tell about the divorce of comedians Petrosyan and Stepanenko.

He learns that Stepanenko's statement on the division of jointly acquired property was registered in the Khamovnichesky court. The court session is scheduled for August 6. The parties hired renowned lawyers to conduct the proceedings. The interests of Stepanenko will be represented by Elena Zabralova - to put it mildly, an expensive lawyer. Sergey Zhorin became Petrosyan's lawyer, who in a number of cases represented the musicians Timati, Yegor Creed and Ptah. That is, in this case, the comedian is being defended by the rappers' lawyer - I think this is one of the funniest situations in Petrosyan's creative life.

But the main and most striking thing for a hard worker who watches all this is the cost of the joint property of the spouses, which is estimated at 1.5 billion rubles. This is followed by a whistle of surprise, checkmate and, possibly, a blow to the table. The sum in hearts is repeated several times. If a hard worker could culturally formulate this situation, he would say something like: "Capitalism is when everyone has you, even clowns."

All over the country, without false modesty, the amount jointly acquired by the comedians is announced, then new nuances are revealed: in addition to cash, the family has a dozen more apartments in Moscow. Ten. Apartments. In the center of Moscow. Stepanenko demands to transfer 80% of the assets to her - women take what is theirs, even if they are joking.

Most likely, the comedians earned this money by the so-called honest work - honest humor, just how to explain to the hard worker that "honest work" is what Petrosyan does with Stepanenko, and not himself, and why their "honest work" is paid in a billion times more than his honest work? The question is rhetorical. Let successful people who have achieved everything themselves answer it.

"Welcome to capitalism" - Petrosyan is about to say his funniest joke to a hard worker on the screen. The hard worker will not be funny anyway.