(Bloomberg View) — Twenty years ago, Dutch journalist Sheila Sitalsing sat down with a demographer at the country's statistics office to talk about how aging would change the Netherlands.

His prediction, she recounts in a column that's the most-read thing on the website of the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, was that aging would "change the atmosphere and the mentality of the country."

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