At its premiere on the German book market, entrepreneur Carsten Maschmeyer once performed a magic play. He once bought the rights to his memoirs from today’s ex-Chancellor Schröder for two million euros. He later gave them to the publishers Hofmann & Campe for a million euros – and at the same time we could still be happy about the entry into force of one for his company lucrative article law Early 2005. Amazing.
The colleagues who are not suspected of magic FAZ later brought the Schröder/Maschmeyer business relationship to the beautiful formula “Friendship begins with money“. That would have been it now, the ideal title for a children’s book that Maschmeyer produced with the business man Axel Täubert and that has just been published. The title would have fitted well into the small collection of Maschmeyer’s other works, at least in terms of sound, which so far, however, have all appeared in the Amazon subcategory “masturbating in the shower”.
One book was called “Self-made – Living Successfully” and another was called “The Millionaire’s Formula. The Way to Financial Independence”. Basically, Maschmeyer always tells the same story, and now he tells it with the help of children. “The Start-up Gang” is also about the question of how to get rich as quickly as possible, because being rich is everything and everything else is nothing.
Clearly a book for everyone who sees their child as a raw material for the German economy
The “rich kid Nele” actually wants to spend her school’s project week in the Fridays for Future group, but it’s already full. That’s why Nele goes to “Design Thinking”, where she gets to know Carl and Aliyah and Mehmet. The children become “friends”. and quickly get pretty bad FDP. “Make way! Here comes the start-up gang!” calls Carl, a company is founded, at the end “children’s champagne corks pop”. But after the actual story there is a glossary. It explains the terms incubator, merger and rapid prototyping, among other things. Below The latter is understood as the “umbrella term for various types of time-saving production of prototypes”.
The recommended minimum age to read this book is ten years old. One would like to recommend the purchase to all parents who see their children less as people and more as raw materials for the time-saving production of prototypes for the German economy. Formally, this book is well done, it has a clear message and delivers it in a targeted manner.
It is best to set up your first company before puberty: The Start-up Gang: Our greatest adventure – from the idea to success, 176 pages, Edel Kids Books.
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But behind this message is the transfiguring romanticism of those German self-made horns, of which Maschmeyer is probably the loudest. Egocentrism and a lust for money are verbally blow-dried by him and others into “entrepreneurial spirit”, without which the German economy would fall back into pre-industrial darkness by the day after tomorrow at the latest.
Of course, real entrepreneurship is great and of course it’s great to teach children early on that with hard work and spirit you can achieve the greatest things. But maybe you can let these children explore their hearts and souls before letting money ethicists like Maschmeyer loose on them? They always jingle promisingly with a few pocket money bitcoins in their pockets – but their method is that of a strict father: Go my way and don’t disappoint me.
If you look very closely, you can read this clever old sentence by René Pollesch in the eyes of Carsten Maschmeyer. The perfidious thing about capitalism is that in the end nobody wants money anymore – and everyone only wants love.