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Suppose you can't be discriminated against and you never have to adapt to anything, because everyone always adapts to you. Suppose you also have the most prestigious education in the country, so that you can't be caught out on that either. Then you can't know what vulnerability feels like. But because you have everything going for you and nothing against you, the chance that you will make it far in society is maximized.  
Joris Luyendijk belongs to this group of non-discrimination and socially invulnerable Dutchmen: a white autochthonous heterosexual man from a 'good nest' with diplomas from the Municipal Gymnasium in Hilversum and the University of Amsterdam on the wall.  
In The Seven Finches Luyendijk tries to understand what his starting position has done to his self-, human- and societal image. And what does it do to a country when men like him call the shots?  Because in an awful lot of places at the very top of politics, the serious media, public administration and business, the boss is played by a man like Joris Luyendijk.