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>>obscur+(OP)
> Norwegians are taking much more sick leave than a decade ago, driving up costs for health services. Student test scores have worsened more than in other Scandinavian countries

...COVID?

Norwegians are taking more sick leave after the largest mass-disabling event in generations?

And test scores are worse compared to other Scandinavian countries, like Sweden, which famously had very few COVID restrictions?

Must be the oil money

>>Steven+W2
Norway has a name for living off the welfare state as a grown up man: Nave, deriving from the social security service Nav and it has been like that for a decade at least.

Building a full social class of dependents of the government takes many years of demoralization and subversion of values.

>>ilived+C4
Of whose values? Demoralization of whom?

>>freeon+v5
Puritans can't stand the idea that someone else might be working less and/or having more fun.

>>rwmj+s7
Welfare states work best when the majority of the population has that attitude. It keeps the most people in the “producer” column and fewer people in the “being supported” column.