[drysine]

Thank you for being familiar with Russian culture, but I don't remember these classics writing about casual link between oppression, suffering, depression and hacker mindset.

Me and cyberax are both Russians, except I never wanted to emigrate

[cyberax]

Well, Gogol's "Dead Souls" is the first example of a lifehack.

[drysine]

I wouldn't call a deception "lifehack".

But anyway, what makes Chichikov's "lifehack" "a result of having to work around the government that is seen more as an occupying force rather than the will of the people"?