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The elephant in the room on many such topics is that state policies are a part of the picture, but often a limited part. It's not just material advantages that
by netcan 10y ago
The elephant in the room on many such topics is that state policies are a part of the picture, but often a limited part.
It's not just material advantages that child members of a class or subculture receive relative to peers. It's soft education, example and such. A child of a doctors and lawyers extended family is more likely to conform to this pattern than a child of a subculture where this is foreign.
Educational parity and even parental income parity can narrow the gap, but it can't close it. Who your parents are matters, apples fall close to trees.. Pick your cliché
- mseebach 10y agoDenmark was rich (by international comparison) and equality was a well established value long before the welfare state. A song written by one of the most popular poets of the time, Grundtvig, in 1820, contained the line "Og da har i rigdom vi drevet det vidt, når få har for meget og færre for lidt." ("We have achieved much in wealth, when few has too much and still fewer too little". My translation does not do the poetic qualities of the original justice, but it's pretty accurate for content.)