Modesty?
Today I read a news snippet that illustrates what was discussed here about the, supposedly, scandinavian attitude towards modesty, "lagom" and the "Jante law":
Dolby laboratories buys the (small) Stockholm company Coding Technologies for a sum of 1.6 billion SEK. The company's founder Lars Liljeryd comments: "Now I can repaint my boat and I don't have to take the bus to work."
/O.K.
(Listening to while posting: Franz Berwald - Symphony no. 3)
2 comments:
I bet he means that now he can take his repainted boat to work. Or he doesn't have to go to work at all :)
"I bet he means that now he can take his repainted boat to work."
Yes, inside a large helicopter. :)
There are numerous stories about people encountering Ingvar Kamprad (of IKEA) on the local bus, or buying his trousers on a big sale etc.
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