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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
Demoralization when it comes to work, study and educational and professional ambition

why study if everyone else doesn't. why bother...

an attitude that ends catastrophically at the individual and social level