In the supermarket I hear a conversation between two stock fillers. “Did you know that Cicero already wrote that … or no, that was Aristotle. Or Cicero? Well, one of the two already said that hope and perspective are important to make the people happy.” “Cicero,” says the other, “nice name.”
If the level of development of a country can be read from the conversation of its stock fillers, then the Netherlands is not that bad.
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A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of September 21, 2022