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Best way I ever heard the law of jante described, was in a TV-show about the Danes for an American TV-channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_jo69ZTwbE ).

Where some dude says "They have this thing called jantelaw, which essentically says that you're no better than anybody else, a garbage man can live in a middleclass neighborhood and hold his head high." - Which I think is a nice way to look at it.

Of course there's differences and social "classes", but there is some truth to the contentedness of many Danes, many people know that more stuff will not necessarily make them happier, so why work so hard to earn money for it?



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