More than 50% of people in working age in Denmark work for the government or make their living through some sort of welfare program. This means more than half t

More than 50% of people in working age in Denmark work for the government or make their living through some sort of welfare program. This means more than half the population of Denmark is prosperous exclusively because of income taken from the productive part of population. Denmark and most of the rest of Scandinavia used to have a very classically liberal (~libertarian) mind set. It is the work ethic that has maintained much of the prosperity. Many of Denmarks large successful export businesses come out of this period. As I like to say. Denmark is prosperous despite their welfare state and not because of it.