Arash, how are you? Shop launched? Goods brought?
Oh, Dara ?!
Arash looked tired, somehow wilted, it was the gleam in his eyes gone. Her shoulders went up, her head sank down. In the eyes it read - what the ass, why, for what?
Arash, what happened?
Nothing special! Everything is as always in our Small AN!
And what is it?
Neighbors connected directly to the transformer. The whole day they were welding iron. In the evening, heavy rain began to fall in a downpour, thunder thundered, lightning flashed.
I was sitting and preparing to launch an online store ...
There was a crash, I thought, again thunder. But it seems it was a blast!
... suddenly the light went out.
Traffic jams out?
Not!
The whole quarter de-energized, the transformer exploded!
Emergency crew arrived! They said they can not do anything!
Need to buy a new transformer!
And it is expensive if you buy if you want to buy a transformer for 15 residential apartment buildings!
How many?
280,000 dollars!
Yes ... of course, it is expensive!
I can not help!
And what if you put the solar panels? They cost 10,000 dollars!
you will not then pay for electricity in the future!
No, Dara, this will not work!
Why?
The new law accepted that it is necessary to pay a tax per year up to $ 2,000 for the installation of solar panels!
So, that is unnecessary!
What then shall we do?
Let's then go around the neighbors, let them throw off and buy a transformer for only two houses. Issue price of 38,000 dollars. Then they will install everything from the regional electric network themselves, they will have to pay another $ 2,000! Put today for dinner!
Ahahahahahahahahaha! I introduced the faces of the neighbors when you tell them that they have to pay for the new transformer!
Arash, well, you give!
What crazy ideas come to your mind!
Why, crazy?
Naive, you still, young, green!
You know what they say about our metropolitan residents?
What are they the wisest?
Not!
They are the most greedy, stingy like Donald Mac Duck!
They used to save!
On food, on vegetables, on fruits, meat.
What they do not eat them?
They eat, but are willing to spend 3 hours trying to find the cheapest market, bargain half an hour to buy goods at the lowest price possible!
Therefore, your arguments. Appeals to common sense, logic, will not pass!
Although, perhaps that ...
What?
If they were the natives of the city, they would eat food for three days. The first day would have boiled rice with meat, the second day would have boiled rice with water and ate soup with it, the third in a boiler where meat and rice were cooked, prepared noodles so as not to waste money on butter.
Yes…
It is strong!
These are traditions! Save on everything! But then they buy a house, a car! Old foundations and traditions! Why spend money on food? But the old residents of the city, they know those wholesale markets where you can buy clothes, shoes, products at the original price, without significant allowances as it is then done in a shop in the city center. After all, all these urban new-fashioned boutiques and shops buy their goods in those markets and bazaars. And then just wind the price. Usually from 40 to 300 percent of the original price. Why pay more?
So, that Dara, they will not give us anything!
They will can probably give money!
Why????
Yes, everything is very, simple, I somehow lost sight of it ...
All those who lived in the city from generation to generation, they moved out of the area. Yes, their little left. Since the old-timers did not like the situation when the economy of Small An, with a developed one, went over to the level of the economy of some kind of banana republics. The budget used to be 500 billion dollars a year (30 years ago) and now barely 47 billion dollars. Then 3 billion dollars was spent on education, 20 billion dollars on social projects, 2.5 billion dollars on science.
In this case, the minimum wages in the city were about $ 400 and the average almost $ 1,200 per month. And the rates for utility costs, taxes, prices for food and clothing are ridiculously low. The standard of living was higher at times! People in Small AN had free higher education and medicine. That is, they were educated, well-fed and healthy. And now all this is not. The minimum wage is barely $ 20 for them and you will not live for 1 week! The minimum pension is $ 45, the average salary is $ 150. If there are not many people in the family, then it becomes very difficult to survive. You can work on two jobs, provided, of course, that you find them! Since the economy is clan. Economy is a mutant in one word, a mixture of planned economy and market economy. Respect for private property, not in principle!
Therefore, the real indigenous people are not used to living in poverty, suffering poverty, they are used to working hard and earning a lot of money while also saving money. Save money, invest their securities, make a profit. This is not possible with us, unless you are a member of an influential clan. They did not tolerate and hoped for changes in economic relations and simply went to other countries, changed their citizenship. Surprisingly, these people did not want to leave their homeland before, and now you can see are their diaspora, them in the USA, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Germany, China and even Japan! Hundreds of thousands of former citizens live there!
So why, Dara, are you sure that we will still be given money to buy a transformer?
And I remembered that here in this area, everyone is living " not local", they have not yet had time to become "local". In our city, as you know, it is worth living for 25 years and you absorb, urban culture, traditions, rituals, lifestyle. You also become an urban city with the veneration of old traditions!
And they have only been living for the past 15 years ... so they are still generous and receptive to common sense!
Oooh !!!
It will be necessary to bypass 100 apartments, it will be tin !!!
Not! You need to be a simple person and people will reach for you!
Yeah, good suggestions for starting the manipulation of human consciousness!
Somehow it works!
Now we call, the chiefs of the house committees and the question to be solved!
And who are the Committee?
This is not zashikivarashi, no! And the chairmen of self-government citizens!
And not the commissioners and committees!
That same deep drilling committee?
Not! You do not go to that steppe! Still young! Although, in something you are right ...
This is usually the employees of security organizations, retirees. Veterans, in short. They manage the house, solve organizational issues, raise money from residents, buy building materials for major repairs or arranging children's playgrounds or building garages for tenants. Take part in the life of the quarter. Report on the situation on the ground to the relevant organizations. This is an archaism that remains to us from the past, from the times when we were still with the empire.
So we will call them, let us go around the cap, we will probably collect the necessary amount!
Yes, such in the West would not have passed!
Probably yes! But not a fact!
And this is the usual, Eastern technique! Voluntary free collective work for the implementation of any. socially useful work assignment is called! The whole world, the whole village, the whole house to help someone or yourself, to solve the problem!
So we lived for centuries and now we live like this!
If you trust the monopolist, the power grid, you will have to wait 1 month for the transformer to be replaced. And sitting without electricity does not smile at anyone? Especially in the beginning of March, when frost is still at night and for some reason expensive central heating is turned off. Interestingly, we cannot refuse him at the legislative level, we also pay for it 12 months a year, and use only 4! Hot water and is dirty, sometimes cold at all, but we pay for it as hot!
These are all echoes from the imperial system too. Our kommunal economy is a monopoly and an extremely inefficient system, no one there has been able to restore order in 30 years ... it's like a quagmire!
...
Uncle Batyr, it's me, Dara! Yes, Aunt Faruzeh's nephew! Aha Thank you, how are you? How is the family? Like children? How are the grandchildren? The oldest is already studying in the USA ?! Good! Well done!
Yes, that's what I'm calling ... a transformer ...
"Yes!"
"Wait"!
"We have already started collecting money from the apartments"!
"But your aunt lives in the house!"
But we have no light, electricity!
"Got it!"
"How much can you give?"
And how many have already collected?
"We walked along with Avez, he was the house chief of the second multi-storey building, we see all the apartments. It turned out about 30 apartments are empty, people do not live there. But they were able to go to 23 of them, they can give money of 300 dollars each. And the remaining 7 are not in the country, they went to work. The ends do not find "!
"We already collected a little more than 15,000 dollars and in another hour and a half or two there will be come another 12,000 dollars, 13,000 dollars remain before the purchase and installation."
"There is about $ 7,000 in our house fund!"
"But still not enough 6000 dollars"!
"If today you don't buy or supply, then you'll need to look for specialists for a long time! We need to solve this issue today! "
Well, 6000 dollars is not a problem, I will pay, but what will we get from this?
"Oooh! Well, you're rich! I heard the farmer became ?! I did not know that the farmers are so rich? !!! "
Yes, no, just sold the apartment!
The part has invested in the farm and something else is left!
"Aha! Well it's good"!
"Then I Firuzeh, reduce rents by 70 percent per month!"
"What do you think"?
Not bad!
"When can you give us money"?
Send a bank account to myr phone, I will transfer!
"And you can not cash"?
"If you transfer to a bank account, the money will go a long time, it will take two days to confirm"!
Then the card will come down?
"Good"!
"When will we meet"?
I'm at my aunt's house now!
"Aha, I understand, I will be there in 5 minutes"!
We wait!
...
"Good day, Dara"!
"Well, let's go to the bank!"
Interestingly, Uncle Batyr, and we will be able to cash $ 6,000 at a time?
"Why not?"
Well, in our banks there are restrictions on cash withdrawals of no more than $ 2,000 for 1 month!
"Oh, you, that Dara did not know that this law was abolished as 1 month ago!"
"Now you can take $ 7,000 per month!"
"So go to the bank!"
...
Wow, my bank account has gotten 6000 dollars thinner!
Well, it happens!
Nothing can be done about it, but there will be electricity already tonight!
Arash, will you finish everything tomorrow?
Not!
Why?
I do not have two computers, they burned!
How so?
I sat, finished the final preparations to start the online store, I only managed to save the project in the cloud, as it happened!
But you still kept the materials?
Yes!
Then you only need a new computer or laptop?
Aha But I do not have money to buy, the one that is suitable for these purposes!
Well, no problem buy you something for 300 dollars.
When I was in Vienna, good laptops there cost about 300-400 dollars!
Hey, Dara, if we have a good laptop, it will cost at least 800 or even all 1000 dollars!
Why?
Customs duties 100 percent + store premium + VAT + seller interest.
So in order to buy the desired configuration, the laptop will need a minimum of 1000 dollars. I am not talking about licensed software. Since the store can only buy "hardware", without the "software". And you still need to find software? The price of only the operating system will cost $ 400, I am not talking about special programs!
Well, put Linex and live! Linex forever!
This is all well and good, of course, Dara, but not all software products are suitable for Linex!
Well, order online, you will be delivered in 10 days!
It is impossible!
Why?
Because we have restrictions on the payment of goods, you can buy goods on the Internet only costing $ 100 and what is more taxed at 100 percent of the amount of goods!
Yeah ... Of course it will be hard!
I say,our top clan say that we would develop creatively and put barriers on all the roads in order to limit our progress towards development!
I think you needlessly, dramatize!
Simply, the clans want to cut down a little money, again the usual monopoly, as they like to run their business. Plus, the unofficial struggle with competitors. Their firms have all the necessary equipment and software, they bought them at a discount, plus their companies are exempted from paying taxes for 5-10 years, some special conditions for beautiful eyes. And to all other firms is simply created by artificial obstacles in order to create intellectual property on the Internet was very difficult and unprofitable!
Say thank you, that recently, abolished the tax on sales and purchases on the Internet! Previously, he was 48 percent, so that was a blow in the gut! Now only 11 percent! Wow!
But, Dara, I need the software worth $ 4,500, it will pass customs will cost $ 9,000!
Arash, what do you worry about? Write to the manufacturer company that you have the same license, and there is at least 10 months before it ends. They will simply send you the address and you will download the necessary files!
Oh, that's a thought, Dara!
But you still need a computer!
Well, now we will go, to the market or computer company there and buy you something!
Do not get, Dara!
Why???
In a computer company for three years, do not sell goods to individuals.
What an ass ?!
Why?
Again the monopoly of the clans!
Well, where to buy?
On the market?
Dara, this is not a good idea!
Why?
Because there are "gray" computer equipment, there is no guarantee, today you will buy a computer, in a month you will come to the market, and the store that sold it has already gone bankrupt and closed.
Therefore, you need to buy in a shopping center, but there computer equipment is more expensive by 30 percent! At the same time there is a discount of up to 12 percent.
Wow!
So I say it is a headache!
Where to go?
In the center, the hypermarket is the only one in the city!
Go!
...
Sitting on a motorcycle, Dara asked, Arash:
But what happened to the computer?
It was a horror! It was a miracle! It was real magic! The magic of nature! Inexplicable phenomenon!
"I'm sitting here, keyboard in hands typing in codes ... when suddenly there was a buzz, thunder. I thought, well, it's time to turn off the computer so that the lightning does not strike the house. Sometimes we have such cases "!
"Suddenly I felt the smell of ozone!"
What? What nonsense are you talking to me here? How can you feel the ozone? Do you know how it smells?
"Yes"!
"Ozone smells like air after a rainstorm, a refreshing smell! Who sneaks to the tips of the brain "!
"I would like to start dancing and laughing merrily for no reason"!
"Euphoria"! "Joy"! "Happiness"! "An inexplicable sense of freedom, lightness and wonder"!
...
"A beetle flew into the room through the iron grate, or rather a firefly!"
"He had some kind of inexplicable logic trajectory."
"The beetle flew diagonally, vertically, then began to rush around the room as a" Brownian motion "which I saw in some textbook!
"Then he flew up to me, literally stopped at 5 mm from the nose"!
"I could not see his contours"!
"So it was light!"
"Yellow color, turning into white"!
"I was scared and at the same time I felt my inner voice say to me - run, you fool, right now!"
"I jumped automatically from the computer"!
"At that moment, the beetle did not follow me, but flew up to the server ..."
"The beetle began to grow before our eyes, from a 25 cent coin, it increased to the size of a tennis ball"!
"It began to change its color, from yellow, white, to blue, lilac, and then black and completely invisible, white, so much so that my eyes were blind"!
"There was a deafening crash, and then an explosion!"
"In my eyes, at first everything turned white and then turned black!"
"I am become deaf for 10 minutes"!
"It smelled sharply of ozone, once again!"
"Then another explosion rang out on the street!"
"At home, on the street, it became suddenly dark!"
"It was at 2 in the morning"!
"The emergency service of the power grid, nobody picked up the phone there."
"...".
"Electricity was given only at 7 am, then I found small holes in the cases of two computers, 1 cent coin in size, opening the case, I saw only melted mather boards and hard disks resembling two crushed donuts."
"I tried in vain to recover data from hard drives, but they were not read at all!"
What was it, Arash?
"I think it was a fireball!
I was also lucky that electricity was cut off all over the block at that moment "!
Lucky to say here!
"OF COURSE"!
...
What a mess! Look, Arash! The prices for notebooks are not real, I saw the same configuration in Vienna for $ 350, and we sell it for $ 1,780!
"I've talked about this before!"
Hey ... fool, why are you only talking about topics that have nothing to do with your farm, magic, trade, shopping, money, goods ... all about some obscure words!
Well, so is our life! You think about one thing, it turns out otherwise!
Utility infrastructure, old! There is no one to replace! All modernization occurs at the expense of consumers, the population! We were lucky, the neighbors have the money, for them to detach 300-350 dollars was not difficult for their budget. And other families do not earn so much all together in a month. They would not be able to fold and $ 50 they have every dollar in the account! Then the house would have to take a loan from a bank! And then increase the rent ... after paying off the loan, after that they usually do not make the rent lower. Moreover, all apartments are privately owned, but at any time their house can be demolished and thrown out onto the street, this is a feature of business in Small An. Compensation for the demolished property will be 2-3 percent of the market value.
Hey, Dara, why is it so hard for you to live?
And when it was easy?
Okay, here we are going to buy a computer, Arash will launch a new store, and we probably will not wait for feedback from customers today ... let's go back to the farm ...
And tomorrow we planned to go to the wonderful mountains of "Light" and buy dry fruits, seeds, nuts, fruit candy and there if it turns out mulberry flour. Places there are beautiful, especially in spring. The foothill steppe is covered with red and purple poppies, blooming high as columns of 2–3 meters Erémurus, the smell of grasses is amazing! But who does not envy allergies! Their nose begins to flow, their eyes become red, watery, their general condition worsens, they are like drunk.
In the mountain streams fish are already beginning to splash, the slopes of the mountains are covered with a green carpet, the beauty is unprecedented! Eagles and falcons fly in the turquoise sky. On the steep slopes and rocks, mountain sheep jump. And at night in a mountain valley, you look at the moon, and she is so big, huge, right and that many stars, in the city you will not see them!
Looking at the mountain range, against the backdrop of darkness, when illuminating the moon, you can see how the bear is walking. In the night, the howling of wolves is heard ... well, it's good that the walls of houses are 2 meters thick. Good iron doors, and in the yard are three powerful dogs, wolfhounds.
It is a pity that now there are few of them left in these mountains. Violent people, took them to the cities for dogfights, they looked awesome, big, handsome, beautiful, looked majestic. But they were quickly killed by small dogs ...
Only after a while they stopped it, those who took out the dogs were punished, the fighting was stopped, and the situation was brought under control. But dead dogs will not return.
People are sometimes so inhuman.
...
The best, you need to buy in the mountain villages, farmers and peasants in the yards have selected dry fruits for ridiculous money according to the urban concepts.
Due to the difficulty and danger of driving on mountain roads, paying taxes for sales, few farmers go to sell their products in the capital.
Though now and globalization, civilization penetrates weakly in the mountain gorges anyway. There are mountain shops, they were not there a couple of decades ago. But the prices there are high, the goods are old.
It is surprising that up to our times, you can exchange some of the dry fruits and nuts for other goods. Previously, it was flour and meat. Now iPhones, digital cameras, gasoline, sugar, binoculars ...
So these are the plans, dear Sister ...
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Erémurus- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremurus