One of the taboo themes of “bourgeois privacy” is fortune and income. It has continued to be off-limits to this day.
But why?
The banks and the fiscal authorities know everything about me, anyway. And it is well-known that data are insecure with banks and states. Too many CD’s are handed around.
My personal bank wants to see a detailed list of my property every year – regardless of the fact that I am liable with my entire fortune and regardless of my real estate property being considerably higher than my bank debt. The list is a “must”, protest is a total “NOGO”, as hopeless as it is useless.
The tax office always wants to know what income I have to the cent. They, too, have a form to fill in and even a program called “Elster” (magpie: nomen est omen) I can use for doing my tax return online.
For me, it would not be a problem to make my property declaration or my tax return form public on the internet. And I cannot imagine how such a publication would mean any disadvantage for me. I am not rich enough for anybody to get jealous. Neither am I in such a calamitous situation that people would have to be worried.
But I also see no good in it. The banks and the tax office would not accept my internet publication. And normal people would probably not be interested in my “Elster” forms. I am sure the click-rate would be a disappointment.
So I will not publish it, after all. It would be an extra effort and I would not want to provoke anybody. Am I being preposterous, or what?
But who knows: if I have to read much more of the same nonsense about losing the “bourgeois privacy” as I recently did in the Süddeutsche, I might just do it after all, just to protest.
I do not think even one additional financial counsellor will call me. And otherwise, nothing will change, either. It is all the same, anyway.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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