Ultimately, money is just a symbol for something else, says the psychoanalyst, and he’s right about that. If that were not the case, we would all have to be satisfied with the maximum rate of citizen income, because that supposedly covers all the necessary needs of a person living in Germany. However, only a few recipients of basic income are happy and content, the rest cannot imagine getting by with so little money. These days, the symbolic function of money beyond the most basic needs has been beautifully demonstrated by the debate about parental allowance.
Class struggle: Germany is losing its middle class culture
