The Danish Don't Have the Secret to Happiness

Re:The Danish Don't Have the Secret to Happiness by DanishExpat on Saturday January 31, 2015 @08:51PM (#8978862)

There's no developed society in the world that doesn't have it's share of people who hold some version of those exact views.

That's why the article covered this view point but ultimately concluded that when those Danes were asked which other country they would rather live in, the response was silence.

I live in the US and pay an enormous amount of taxes that do not go towards improving society the way they would in Denmark. Close to 80% of people routinely vote in general elections in Denmark. This means that by and large Danes have the government and the polices they want.

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Re:The Danish Don't Have the Secret to Happiness by chvid on Saturday January 31, 2015 @10:12PM (#8979028)

Sure we have the policies we want and when asked in a survey we wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

And I guess you can dismiss what I as say as merely a political view.

But Denmark is an extreme with the biggest welfare state and the highest level of taxation of any country plus having a "small open economy".

That makes the mechanisms I listed much stronger here than anywhere else.

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