The super rich – still room for improvement

Whether the booklet (7.5 times eleven centimeters) really has the 160 pages, as it is said in the publisher announcement, I can neither confirm nor deny: Pagination as well as the reason, as well as the reason, why you lie on English: Yes, yes, most billionaires speak this language – but is that the target group? And yes, yes, one was oriented towards both color and in the format on the Mao Bible, those “words of the chairman Mao Tse-Untung” that were very popular in the 1960s. The Eulenspiegel.verlag had edited a similar speech collection in 2015 to adopt the parliamentary group leader of the left: “Words of the chairman Gregor Gysi”. But the font was smaller and maybe the salary, but there were at least page information. Enough of the superficial toiletry. Perhaps the publisher wanted to set a punch line with the format that lacked the whole?

Matthias Duderstadt took 75 quotes from super rich and gives his comments, which had already served for distraction and construction, because, according to the prescription that the writing was distributed as the basis for the casual discussions at a secret meeting of the billionaires. She had taken care of great cheerfulness at the illustrious society. Well, my cheerfulness was steamed when reading, which was probably not solely due to the fact that my account balance differed significantly from those of the billionaires. We also don’t go to the idea of what is strange.

I read, unfortunately, everything as well as the author probably meant. He took a saying – let’s say this by Hasso Plattner: “Social justice does not mean redistribution, but all to let the prosperity share” – and he replies: “The prison of prisons opens up a profitable business area. However, the quota has so far been extremely unsatisfactory … “Then a few sentences about knots and the Conclusio are followed by:” Because of the pleasantly cheap wages for the prisoners, this industry must not get out of sight with internationally operating companies. ”

Would you like another burner? “In comparison to other forms of energy generation, nuclear power is safer.” Duderstadt reacts to this saying by Bill Gates, as you can expect from a doctorate in a doctorate: “The nuclear industry must not only be preserved worldwide, but also expanded. On the entire African continent there is currently (!) In South America, just five nuclear power plants. There is an urgent need for action here. ”The principle can be recognized: The comments are factual instructions on his peers, i.e. the pseudomilliarist D. for gates and enjoyed. In the ears of the “normal” people it should ironic. But is sarcasm already satire? I just lack the lightness, the joke. Instead of the floret, the index finger is fingered.

The idea is good, but the execution … The same applies as to my account balance – a lot of room for improvement.

Matthias Duderstadt: The Billionair’s Bible. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 160 p., Br., 10 €.