The book addresses some of the financial issues prevalent in our society in a short collection of true stories to educate and educate individuals. It begins with a conflict between “reason” and “society” over the group of creditors drowning in a swamp of debt, where “society” ignores the circumstances of that group while “reason” goes on a short trip to find out their stories and what their circumstances are, then offers solutions to the creditors, and benefits from the experiences of those who survived them in order to prove Society has the idea that these individuals are capable of change and emerge from the darkness of debt into the light of success, eventually calling them “reasonable spendthrifts.”
What is the true value of a soldier's foot that saved the life of a higher-ranking officer? How does a person who has made laughter his profession actually laugh? How do brief yes or no answers summarize a man's happiness? What memories will a few paintings hanging in a school turned into a military hospital evoke for an injured student returning from war? Is it better to live to work, or to work to live?
These and other questions will be addressed by the German writer Heinrich Boll in this book. Reflecting in his sometimes funny, sometimes angry, and sensitive style every other time, his mockery of the conditions that followed the war, which forced people to resume their lives as if nothing had happened, and his mockery of the capitalist tendency that demands everyone to work to the best of their ability for the sake of “the future”... valuing contemplation. Slowly, Heinrich Bull writes in these stories his response to a hasty world, possessed by madness, and lacking its humanity.