Dear reader, the American Michaeleen Doucleff and her little daughter visited indigenous peoples like the Mayas and Inuit and saw how the families live there.

Their conclusion:

we can all learn from them.

The children there are very relaxed and helpful.

“I couldn't believe how much they help around the house.

The Mayan children wash, do the dishes and cook as a matter of course without any discussion, ”said Doucleff in an interview with our colleague Anke Schipp.

“They encourage the children very early on to take part in everything they do around the house.

It is noticeable that they never rant when something doesn't work out.

They stay incredibly relaxed themselves. ”This taught the children to pay attention to their surroundings and to recognize when something needs to be done.

In Mexico there is even a name for it: "acomedido".

That means being helpful and attentive.

“In my opinion, the children of these peoples are mentally much healthier.

They have a deep connection to the family, to nature, to the animals and their earth. "

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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Let's stay with the philosophical.

The philosopher Richard David Precht, who likes to present himself as a sensitive thinker, does not like men who are too sensitive in his eyes, not really masculine, too soft - then they are missing something fundamental.

For him they are like "non-alcoholic beer".

If you have beer, please have the right one.

Julia Encke watched one of his last appearances.

A lot was also about the strictly individual freedom, which is supposedly restricted, curtailed or threatened.

The fact that individual freedom can also end where it endangers the freedom of others does not seem to matter.

Since the concept of the individual only makes sense if it relates to a community, constitutional lawyer Christoph Möllers has mainly advocated the concept of collective freedom in his book "Degrees of Freedom". Möllers is one of those who, in the current situation of unchecked increasing incidences, consider compulsory vaccination permissible under certain conditions, even if it constitutes an interference with the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to physical integrity. These prerequisites include the state demonstrating that there is no other way to combat the pandemic effectively. You already guessed it, there is a lot going on in the piece.

Now a monetary note: 2022 holds a lot of potential for your own retirement. People with compulsory insurance can transfer compensation payments to the statutory pension insurance. This is how you lower your haircuts if you want to retire earlier. In recent years, more and more citizens have taken advantage of this opportunity. One reason for this development is, among other things, the low interest rates. This makes payments into the statutory pension insurance relatively attractive. "For special payments, the rule currently applies: Statutory pensions beats company and private pensions," says financial mathematician Werner Siepe.

In principle, every person who is compulsorily insured has the option of compensatory payments from the age of 50.

In this way, pension cuts can be compensated - if someone does not want to work up to the age specified by law. Alternatively, you can simply increase your pension in this way if someone does work longer.

The number and amount of compensation payments are likely to increase significantly in the coming year.

Because in 2022, extra payments to the pension insurance are particularly cheap.

"If you are faced with the simple decision of being able to make tax-optimized compensation payments either exclusively for 2021 or for 2022, you should of course postpone the payment to the coming year," says Karlsruhe pension advisor Markus Vogts.

Because the purchase price per euro of monthly pension entitlement has fallen from the current EUR 225.99 by around 6.4 percent to EUR 211.63.

Greetings from the editorial team, stay healthy,

Your Carsten Knop


Editor of the


Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung