Publisher's Synopsis
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Ethics, language: English, abstract: Poverty is returning. That must be our first discovery when we speak about poverty in Germany. Once it was fought and became a marginal problem. Why is it returning? For a long while, there was the firm belief that life goes forward and we live in an elevator society. Our children will be better off. That was the motto when I was growing up. This picture of the elevator society where everyone would be prosperous is not reality anymore. Everyone is not on an upward course anymore. The picture has turned upside down. While some are going upward, others are going downward. A Lord's Prayer society has replaced the elevator society. The formerly secure middle class at its outskirts has long been eroding. Children with a good education can not find good jobs and work their way from one traineeship to the next and one temporary job to the next. The financial market crisis has not ended by any means - it has only shifted. It has become a crisis of the public budget. The crisis costs should now be shifted to the weaker and the poor and not be assumed by the profiteers of the crisis, the banks, the speculators and the wealthy. ..The "austerity package" of over 80 billion euros altogether will result in more poverty. There can be no talk of social justice as long as Germany represents a tax haven for heirs, speculators and the super-rich. [...]
