Family Friedman - Brand Eins Online

Patri Forwalter-Friedman parks his dented station wagon.His long hair is colored purple.The livrated porter looks indignantly.Patri goes through the huge marble reception hall and drives the golden elevator into the 20.Stock to the apartment of his grandparents.They have been living in one of the few high -rise buildings on the Russian Hill in San Francisco for a quarter of a century.The outer walls are entirely made of glass, with a wonderful view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and the Finanzviertel.The apartment is modern, with a glass table and right -angled seating set.The carpet is so soft that you almost sink into it to the ankles.

Rose and Milton Friedman are horrified.Even grandson Rick spoiled the idea of his new girlfriend because he was wearing an earring.But Patris appearance at the family reunion is a shock."What does he just want to protest?" Asked the grandparents of their son David, Patri's father.He just laughs and says that with such a look you rebelled a quarter of a century - today it was just a fashion.Patri cannot understand the excitement: "It's just aesthetics, it means nothing to me."

When Patri explains his plan for an anarchist project to the grandparents, he finds even less understanding.He wants to build a kind of raft from concrete and steel that offers space for half a dozen people on 900 square meters.The raft looks like a mirrored toblerone from above and can be connected to other rafts.The "Seastead" raft community is to be determined six nautical miles in front of Gibraltar.There, due to a gap in international caval law - in which ships, not rafts are mentioned, a legal space would be created.No police, no court.The rules that the residents are set up should apply - regardless of whether they allow Russian roulette or the cloning of people."The project is my dream," says Patri excitedly, who wants to put his entire legacy in Seastead.Rose and Milton shake their heads."That's crazy."

For the Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, the state is actually also an enemy.The founder of Monetarism and one of the pioneers of the Chicago school preaches capitalism as the best of all economic systems.Money -political instruments such as the influence of interest rates are just as reprehensible as the entire Keynesian welfare state.In his main work "Capitalism and Freedom" published in 1962, Milton preached the return to 19.Century: Lower taxes, abolish subsidies, privatize schools and social security.Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's economic policy were strongly shaped by this thinking: "The area of action for the government must be limited.Their main task must be to protect our freedom, to ensure order and private contracts and to promote competitive markets, "writes Milton Friedman.

With his ore -liberal theories, Milton changed not only the world, but also his family - more than him should be loved.The contrast is strong: Milton and Rose went into the White House for 70 years and advised governments all over the world.You think a lot of your own home, conservative clothing and clean fingernails.Her children and child children, on the other hand, found patchwork families, live in municipalities and are anarchists - but without left -wing happiness."I'm anarchist, but I don't believe in a utopia," says Milton's son David.Milton is a law professor and sent his children to a school in which they could choose what they learn.Patri has just made his Master of Computer Science, earns money with poker and is working on his ultra-anarchy project Seastead.

Milton's daughter Janet also does not think of the state and used to find tax loopholes for her customers as a lawyer and tax consultant.Her son Rick followed the rock group Phish as a fan through the country and is now taking care of the sound system of the local pop rock band Mumbo Gumbo.

Since the visit mentioned a few years ago, the grandparents Patri have not seen very often.The Friedman clan doesn't meet too often anyway."You live your life and we live ours," says Rose.Although the children of the children moved from Chicago to San Francisco.Now the Friedmans are spread over Northern California, live close together, and are nevertheless incredibly separated - with rose and Milton in the center.The 90-year-old Milton sits in the office almost every day and works primarily on educational issues."I used to need libraries, today I have Google," he says. 1996 rief er die Milton & Rose D.Friedman Foundation into life, which supports parents in the training of their children and promotes the privatization of schools.US Federal Research chief Alan Greenspan and his wife will be happy to come to breakfast or dinner with their friends.And other high -ranking representatives of the American high finance are also regularly visited.

The streets around the Russian hill are steep, but the two go for a walk every day."Yesterday I was at the Union Square," says Rose - the way to the shopping mile should be for a 91 -year -old to climb to Mount Everest.Despite his age, Milton recently bought a new Lexus.A BMW convertible is also in the underground car park.When daughter Janet and Milton's secretary Gloria Valentine suggested some time ago to hire a driver, the old man did not even look up from the desk and grumbled: "Let me calmly."

He is a hard bone.In interviews he likes to say things like: "I think the question does not make sense."The big scar over his upper lip - as a child he flew through the windshield of his father's car, a Ford T - gives his face a warlike note.Over the decades, he was born with the American central bank, left -wing students, conservative senators and the Nobel Prize Committee.Even his academic foster father Arthur Burns estimated.The two reconciled only decades later."Diplomacy is not my strength," writes Milton Friedman in his biography.

And yet there is great friendliness in it.He shows that to his family, friends and students.In the past, he lovingly told his children on long car rides. Fairy tales who were invented.Even today, his daughter Janet remembers the circus director Gazookis, which is devised by the father, who visits a family with his animals and artists and maintains their daughter and son with all kinds of tricks.

Rose and Milton met for the first time.Even today, both giggle on the question of what they found together at the time.Rose thinks for a while, Milton wants to leave the room."His attentive and considerate manner attracted me," she says finally.Certainly she impressed that he found a mistake in Viner's derivations.The professor only admitted the carver after the lecture."She was very attractive and it is still today," says Friedman."She was interested in my economic work, at least she was wrong."

Often until late at night, Rose and Milton sat in the faculty of tables and calculations for statistical demand curves.But nothing happened between them.The hint with the fence post by the Swedish assistant Sune Carlson, who pushed the two into an elevator after work and disappeared in the stair hall, did not use anything.The two said goodbye, Rose even refused to say goodbye.Years passed until handshake.Even after that there was only one to think of "if you can take care of it reasonably," said Rose.In 1938 the time had come.The two married in a small circle in New York, for the sake of their parents after Jewish tradition with chupa and shattered wine glasses.By the way: Carlson went back to Sweden, became an economic professor there and Saß in 1976 in the committee of the Nobel Prize Committee, which Milton awarded the award.

Rose and Milton have a lot in common.Both are children of immigrants who are at the beginning of 20 before the anti -Jewish atmosphere in Eastern Europe.Century fled to America.In a Polish - later Russian, now Ukrainian - village, Rose spent the first two years in chaos for the first two years of life.Her father hid for days and feared for his life when a Russian in the grain mill he supervised with the coat got into the gear..Dull anti -Semitism met ancient superstition.Rose remembers that if there is difficulty in a birth, all unmarried women had to cut their hair briefly.When Rose's sister fell ill, the mother had to spend the night with her for two days in a cemetery corner.

Rose wanted to become a concert pianist, but followed her brother Aaron to Chicago to study economics as one of the few women.However, she did not end her doctoral thesis on the history of capital theory."I never wanted to contest Milton on a professional level - maybe because I was smart enough to see that I had no chance," she says."She had an incredibly high proportion of my work," he says.

Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn.His parents were Jewish emigrants from Hungary.The mother worked as a seamstress under inhumane conditions, but she did not complain about exploitation.On the contrary, she was grateful for the money and the chance of learning English.At home they spoke Hungarian, Yiddish and English.The father died early.In the new house in New Jersey, the family of five opened a stuff.An ice cream parlor shit miserably.With a lot of work and the sense of the money, Friedman struggled through his studies: sold hats in the barely roselle, waiter in the restaurant for lunch, supplied fireworks, gave tutoring.

Their origin strongly shapes the thinking of the two.Their families and themselves also had to work hard.But they feel that as a favor, not as a burden.They expect others to be able to cope without help."America Gonif," said Rose's mother always delighted.This is Yiddish and means, for example: everything is possible in America.In fact, Milton Friedman's rise from the waiter to Nobel Prize winner is an American dream.To his 90.Birthday almost a year ago gave President George W.Bush a feast in the White House.Rose and Milton came - that was a good vigor."Such dinners are boring," he says."Everything depends on whom you will be set," she adds.That is why they have the frequent invitations from Washington - the journey in private aircraft is a prerequisite anyway - almost always.

The Friedmans met a miscarriage hard.Only the birth of Janet in 1943 changed everything."Janet was like a gift from heaven.Nothing else was interested in me, "says Rose.Milton also showed his father -love in his own way: meticulously noted and eat from Janet to make statistical tables and curves from them.He also listed Janet's first words conscientiously.When the baby suffered from a stomach disease, Milton ran through New York to get the bananas recommended by the doctor despite lack of war.During the day, he pondered for the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University about the ballistics of the anti-aircraft defense or the flight ability of the Bomber B-29.Working for the US Army was secret, even his wife was not allowed to tell a word about it.

After the end of the Second World War, David was born.Rose was relieved because she had lost a boy at the miscarriage and he was reproduced in a way.But there was another reason to be happy."When Milton told me it was a boy, I called: Thank God! I no longer need to give birth to children.We never intended to start a big family."

The children Janet and David: An anarchist loves the Middle Ages and a lawyer to save taxes

Janet Friedman's house's entrance can hardly be found.A path overgrown by grass and flowers leads back to the door.The first two digits of the number 2400 have disappeared.The frame of a basketball corner hangs above the garage.There is no bell, just a rusted carillon.The house is big, but in the living room you feel like you are in a cave despite the high ceiling.The tiles are brown, the furniture dark.Despite the large window and patio door, there is not much light inside: the trees and a garden shed block the sun out.Janet likes to sit here in a black armchair with footrest and writes on her Apple laptop, listens to audio books or plays with chip, her husband, bridge.

David Friedman's house is almost a hundred years old.Two ancient spruce giants block the view from the street.In the garden it grows wild and colorful.There are chairs and a self -made cot on the Holzveranda, which David built according to medieval drawings.He has been living here with his second wife and two children for eight years.David looks astonishingly similar to his father, a round face with a half -bald and a big nose.But Milton Friedman would not dress like this: David wears a short -sleeved shirt with Mexican decorations and old -fashioned black sports shoes.

The siblings are fundamentally different."At first we had little to do with each other, then we allied ourselves against the parents," says David.The introverted Janet hesitates when speaking, hands and fingers stir a life of their own, they underline what has been said.David knows no shyness, quotes from poems freehand and smiles without omission."Janet is organized and strong in will.She thinks like a lawyer, "says the father."David is extroverted and original.He needs the change."

Like all Friedmans, Janet fought against the state - only in pragmatic and bourgeois way."I rebelled against my parents by not interested in politics," she says.As a lawyer of a law firm in San Francisco, she represented companies against claims for damages.Later you will save wealthy customers when tax."In the past, the tax rates were extremely high," says Janet."It was still fun to find loopholes in the law."During Ronald Reagan's work, her father's work led to dramatically lower taxes, especially for better offset.Today Janet only takes care of her three horses and dressage.And of course about bridge.Her husband Chip became world champion five times, last year Janet was captain of the victorious team."Poker wrongly think that happiness is important," she says."At Bridge you think, luck doesn't matter.But that is not true either."

David Friedman loves poems from the Middle Ages.He was not only the first to translate the Hildebrand song into English, but also invented an end for the 1200 -year -old old German fragment.He is currently trying to sell his fantastic novel "Harald" to a publisher.The idea came from the good night stories for his children.Like his father, who used to talk about the circus director Gazookis in the car, David invented a royal tag for his daughter and son about the medieval Icelandic people of Northvales.This has been fascinated for a long time, in his opinion there was almost anarchy there."There were courts and lawyers," says David, "but no police or army.The enforcement of the law was completely privately organized."

David Friedman is her own.Early he read books, as a teenager, he was seriously concerned about the world.Why do you need judges and police officers?They would be powerless if the majority did not adhere to laws.David was unsettled and decided to live on the law, otherwise society could collapse.The today's anarchist David followed out all laws.He even refused to buy a glass of wine to a minor friend."Everyone thought, I was crazy," says David."I am a little conceptual, but at some point it fell like scales from my eyes: nobody feels morally committed to adhere to the laws."The history of science fiction author Robert Heinlein" The moon is a bitter lover ", in which Heinlein describes a company on the moon without a state, but with property rights, finally opened his eyes: David became anarchist.

"We messed up a lot with David," says Rose Friedman."Practically since birth, he thinks like an economist, goes like an economist and breathes like an economist."The parents still urged him to study physics, for fear of the long shadow of the father.David confessed for a long time.Only as a freshly baked doctor of physics did he publish the book "The Radium of Freedom - Guidelines for Radical Capitalism" in 1973.In today's classic anarchist, he raves about a society that is slowly freed from state constraints.With the book he freed himself from the pressure of the parents and started studying economics at the age of 28."Some did not see myself in me, but my father.It was not easy."

Today David Friedman teaches in the legal department of Santa Clara University, where he deals with the economic theory of the legal system.For example, he deals with incentive structures for police officers, criminals or judges.In a weekly seminar, David also discusses circulating inventions in nano or biotechnology and its possible legal and economic consequences."My father changed the world of 20.Century, I take care of the 21.Century, "he says with a smile.

Father and son are carved out of the same wood."We have been fighting since I can think," says David."After I met Milton, I could only say half as much," Rose recalls."After David was born, I couldn't have a say anymore."Milton Friedman represents conservative liberal views.The state should withdraw and only ensure security internally and outside.His son continues and demands the abolition of the state."I think it's morally wrong to kill people," says David.

"But why should it be wrong if a legislator tells me that it is wrong?"

The way to the anarchy should be evolutionary, step by step.David: "Revolutions and violence only lead to more state."He regularly gets into the hair with left anarchists.As well as the role of the market, of which, in his opinion, there is not too much, but too little.In his dream company, the residents pay private, decentralized and profit -oriented protective agencies that guarantee their security.There is not a legal system, but several that are competing with each other.His concept of anarcho capitalism is strongly reminiscent of the Middle Ages - not by chance David fascinates this era.

Everyone calls the patio door "Darwin ramp".Those who do not take care of and step outside falls into the depth.There used to be a wooden terrace there, but they ate the termites.At parties, Patri Forwalter-Friedman braved a table in front of the door so that nobody is actually being sophisticated by evolution.The probability would be quite high, because the bar is next to it with countless bottles.On the bar stool, roommate Rob sits in the brown bathrobe and solves a tricky question from the qualification for the final round of the US councilor championship.It is in stress, the answer must be sent in by the Internet until noon.At the bottom of the pool, municipal member Andy holds small square notes in the sunlight in the white bathrobe.This is also a mystery, a three-dimensional, so to speak, for the logic championship."You can use scissors," explains Patri, which is probably something special.

The house does not stand out from the outside.A blue wooden shield with a white butterfly, the sign of "Alpine Butterfly", hangs over the garage.The butterfly is cut from mountaineering rope: Butterfly is a node often used by alpinists, which secure each other with a rope before crashing.The seven local residents see each other similarly.Patris Honda sports car stands at the door.License plate: "Frrreak."

The two wall cabinets in the living room are painted from the inside with blue circles and yellow prisms.A compromise.In the frenzy of the municipal foundation five years ago, a resident wanted to paint the entire house like this.The others defended themselves - today municipalities are no longer what they were in the 1960s.There is not much space in the house.A internet server hangs on nylon straps under the spiral staircase.The riot construction saves space and symbolize the Seastead project, explains Patri: "The server rocks like a raft in the sea."

Patri is like his father David.Patri is the "brain", says Gloria Valentine, who has been working as a secretary for Milton for more than 30 years.How father and grandfather speaks and thinks the grandson with merciless logic and is curious like a newspaper reporter."I have the Friedman gene," says Patri.He grew up on the US east coast with his mother Diana Forwalter, who was divided early by David.Patri was popular with the grandparents.When Milton received President Ronald Reagan's Medal of Freedom in 1988, he was allowed to."The logo of the White House was printed everywhere," Patri recalls the feast."I stuffed my pockets with my napkins and stated at school."

Although he was separated from the father for a long time, Patri developed the same anarchist inclinations.At school he argued with teachers who wanted to ban him to wear rebellious T-shirts or to listen to music in the cafeteria.Early he developed a tendency to the computer and knew well with technology at all.So he found a trick with which he could make calls from telephone cells for free.With friends he converted the cable box from the television in a hotel room so that they could see payment films for free."It's very simple," he says.When he spent more time with his father as a teenager, an intimate relationship developed."We are fighting a lot," says Patri, "but 95 percent we agree."They do not agree on the hotel's injured property rights and the television station."The satellite signal used by us did not cost the TV company," defends Patri.What would he tell the hotel owner if he got them?"We only conclude the sales contract when we click on the declaration of consent on the screen," he replies."But because we never click on it, we don't break any contract."

Patris space is lila painted.His tongue piercing is also purple.Lila is his favorite color, at one of his first World Poker Championships five years ago in Las Vegas, he played with a purple Irodesch.."A mistake," says the 26-year-old, who is now wearing short dark brown hair."I noticed too much and couldn't concentrate."Once a week, he stuffs 5,000 to $ 10,000 in his jacket pocket and drives the Honda to the casinos of the area.Patri plays with Walkman on his ears and baseball cap deep in the forehead - he doesn't see enough with sunglasses.He has been poking for five years, against board heads, gamers and Florida pensioners.Sometimes he loses everything, he often wins a lot.After his calculation, he has earned an average of $ 50 an hour.When poker, it depends on happiness and long -term skills."The trick is not to pick up many cards and consistently get out with poor leaves.To put a lot of money with a good hand."

Recently Patri concluded his studies in computer sciences.He has had the idea for Seastead for years.Now he wants to realize it.Unlike Freedom Ship or other anarchist fantasies that ended up in the trash can of history, the rafts are a realistic thing, according to Patri.The costs were not high with $ 400,000 per raft, "less than one house in California", and the rafts could be connected so that the project is slowly growing.First of all, he wants to build a prototype in the Bay of San Francisco with two partners by the end of 2004.The trio is hoping for attention from the press, money from wealthy silicon-volley residents and the support of environmentalists-recycling ideas, solar energy and sustainable techniques are to be used on the raft.Later, in front of Gibraltar, hotels are supposed to serve drugs à la carte, the marketing of television rights and forbidden gambling Seastrad.

Lord, the need is great!The I called the spirits, I will not get rid of now!Milton Friedman could go through the poem of Goethe's sorcerer's apprentice if he loved poems as his son David.The liberal teaching increased in astonishing way in his family in his family.The father's ore liberalism was further turned by the son to anarcho-capitalism."David is not a dangerous anarchist," says Milton."If you consider today's circumstances, David and I want the same - it only arises as to how far you want to go."According to Rose, the arguments between father and son are undecided."If that's true," says David, "that's a world record."

Patri, on the other hand, does not want to discuss - he wants to see results.His grandfather and father demand the release of drugs - he takes them."But only after thorough information on the Internet."Patri does not want to realize a gradual change in society as a whole, but his dream with few people immediately."I'll live on the raft."But he does not hope for a paradise there.Like his father, he is a realist, he has already bought a revolver.His grandfather says: "Patri is still young."There have already been many anarchist projects like Patris Seastead."And everyone failed.“Patri cannot get that out of the concept."I'm really reluctant to say that, but my grandfather is just too old for such ideas."

In fact, a shadow moves on.Aaron Director, the 101-year-old brother and sponsor of Rose, begins to dismantle physically and mentally.He often repeats questions and sentences.Rose and Milton Friedman look at their visits to a terrible distortion of their future during their visits.The 25.June was her 65th years of wedding day, but they didn't celebrate.From the 75th anniversary, they don't want to know anything: "We no longer experience that," says Friedman."We won't hold out for that long."