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Tragic. You lot were famous for queueing up and taking turns, especially for public transport and bank tellers and the like. This certainly does sound like us or -- shudder -- the Italians. Whither Britain? Precisely.

Seneca's strictures against greed, and for contentment with a sufficiency, are harder to take coming not only from a millionaire, but from a millionaire whose loan-sharking operations in Britain seem to have been a major reason for Boudicca's revolt, as per Dio Cassius.

Not quite all of us... we may have the day off, but we most assuredly are not spending it shopping. Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca, Epistulae Morales 2.