Habe ich ja schon ein Problem mit dem Konzept des privaten Erbens: Wieso sollte ich als erwachsener, autarker Mensch irgend ein Anrecht auf Eigent\u00fcmer haben, die jemand anderer sich durch harte Arbeit oder meinetwegen durch Gl\u00fcck erwirtschaftetet hat – blo\u00df weil er aus demselben Genpool sch\u00f6pft?<\/p>\n
Die New York Times<\/i><\/a> beschreibt ein Ph\u00e4nomen, dessen Beobachtung ich bislang nicht wahrhaben wollte, weil das dann doch nicht sein kann: Dass Menschen auch zu Lebzeiten ihrer Eltern glauben, dass sie sich beliebig bedienen k\u00f6nnen:<\/p>\n It was not the first time Ms. Wilkner had swiped something from her mother. She often appropriated socks, spices, oatmeal, once even a chest of drawers she found in her mother’s bedroom that had yet to be assembled. “That was a pretty good steal,” Ms. Wilkner said. “Oh, I took a bookshelf, too. Clocks. I took artwork, a bunch of Monet prints. But my parents have plenty of artwork.” \u201cIt\u2019s the kids. Lock up the China!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nStephen Kunken, 34, an actor in New York who is an admitted “pillager” of his parents’ possessions, said he rationalized that his parents had too much stuff and that he was both “trimming the fat” and “liberating” things. “I thought: ‘These poor things. These are never going to get used. I’m going to liberate them and bring them into the city,’ ” he said.
\nThrough the years Mr. Kunken has taken briefcases, a slide projector, an electric toothbrush, razors, blank tapes, paper towels, soap and bottles of wine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n