"Germans like rules and bans" - with Anna Schneider
Dec 13, 2022
This weekly podcast about Bitcoin is the initiative of the Viennese financial journalist Niko Jilch. The goal: to strengthen and network the German-speaking Bitcoin community - and to bring the Bitcoin phenomenon closer to as broad a mass as possible.
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Anna Schneider, a native of Carinthia, is a freedom fighter, author and chief reporter at "Welt" Berlin. She has found her topic: Freedom. Freedom of the individual. Freedom of opinion. Her book is entitled: "Freedom begins with the I." A provocative title, many think. "I", that sounds like egoism - in the negative sense. But for Anna, it's only logical: because all freedom rights also begin with the individual. And: "Liberalism is the most social thing there is, after all."
She has dedicated an entire chapter of her book to the philosopher Ayn Rand. She says that you shouldn't worry about what others think about you. That you can't control them anyway. It is a self-centeredness that Rand also likes to interpret as egoism to this day. But Ayn Rand is often misunderstood - as is Anna Schneider.
In Berlin, Anna says, nothing really works. "Maybe Germans just like rules and bans too much to really approach freedom," Anna speculates.
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