Mein Wohlstand widert mich an

We need to talk about money. Anna Mayr thinks so. Her upbringing was characterised by poverty and unemployment. She has now "made it": a small family, an old flat, a media job. Her life has given her a special perspective on inequality in our society: "If you have money, you have to accept that others suffer while you are doing well for yourself." Her new book is a budget booklet about affluent spending. Five euros for a glass of red wine. It can't be any good, she thinks - and at the same time would like to dispossess herself. 600 euros for the removal men - whom she pays so that she can earn twice as much in the same time that these men are toiling away. "Mein Wohlstand widert mich an" is a brutally honest cash analysis. It is a book that wants to upset and an open-heartedly painful article for the debate on inequality and participation.