The moderator, initiator and opponents of the "Pro Service Public Initiative" were perplexed in last Friday's TV discussion program "Arena". After Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard asked the audience who else was making payments using the yellow booklet, only one person out of around 40 people in attendance raised their hand.
I also used to pay in using the yellow middle east rcs data booklet, but the last time was 31 years ago. Even my mother, who is now 76, said goodbye to the yellow booklet 20 years ago. Today, more and more payment slips are scanned using mobile phones, train tickets are bought at machines and by mobile phone, and letters are sent by email. Times have changed. Federal companies operate in a partially liberalized market that is characterized by rapid technological and social changes.
"You learn to speak by speaking," said Marcus Tullius Cicero, and also: "The greater the difficulty you overcome, the greater the victory." My request to the digital generation: talk to each other again, it will be a wonderful victory for you. The victory against inner loneliness.