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

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"?