A satire novel – Part 1 of 4

„Competition is for losers. Better use taxpayers´money through private-public partnerships“ from Walter Schoenthaler
is a satire in novel form that makes you think and smile.

A lot has changed since March 2020. This includes us and our trust in others and in what we perceive on a daily basis. Alliances and coalitions have become apparent, images, figures, and statistics exert influence, and the lines between politics, media, and business have blurred – a stage set that constantly confronts us with the question:
Is this imagination or reality?

The Stakeholder Inc., a global asset management company worth billions, wants to buy up the last mineral water spring in the country that is still family-owned in order to eliminate competition for water, the most basic foodstuff in the world.
„Water must have it´s price. Water must be freed from evil CO2, which is bad for the climate.“ (Ludius, CEO of Stakeholder Inc.>)

Stakeholder Inc. is offering is a kind of educational religion, to lead people from selfishness to solidarity, and – of course – they want „to save the climate“, become even more rich and influential by getting full control on water.

A 20-Eurocent coin and a 1-cent Eurocent coin that fell under the baseboard of a supermarket cash register and were forgotten there, named Koin Senior and Koin Junior tell the story.

Rapota, a journalist lady from the Austrian Waldviertel region Rappottenstein investigates the dubious background of a public-private-partnership (PPP) between the „Stakeholder Inc. Group“ and the major of the village.

After publishing her research findings and a controversial interview with Ludius, the CEO of the Stakeholder Group, she is fired.

Ludius, the CEO of the local Stakeholder Company, celebrates in the Metaverse with the governor the public-private partnership that has led to control of a municipal mineral water source, so that seven of eight water sources are now under control.
The next strategic goal of Stakeholder Asset Management Inc. is to purchase the eighth and last private water spring, thereby gaining a monopoly and total control over the country’s water supply.

The last privately owned mineral water spring standing in the way of this plan is the mineral water factory in Striessnig, which has been family-owned for a century.

Dissenbach, the managing director of the Striessnig water source, is fighting against the hostile takeover by the Stakeholder Inc. Group.

Any similarities to actual events or persons would be a miracle.