IshayuG at 2024-03-24 21:04:14+00:00 ID: kwe62ls

Any history book practically. Danmarkshistorien and Lex both have some of it.

During the 1960's and early 1970's there was a boom in the economy and especially construction, and then the oil crisis hit. The left took power and started to really build the welfare state, creating the massive government we have today that is responsible for helping the citizen from crib to grave.

The 1970's and 1980's got increasingly awful as a result of the massive government spending that had built up in combination with multiple international disasters such as the oil crisis and the Reagan depression, ultimately culminating in "kartoffelkuren" where private citizens were told directly to stop spending. There was even a law at one point which made driving illegal on Sundays. Taxes went way up.

Since that time we've been slowly chipping away at the welfare state that was built up. Schools have larger classes, university is being cut shorter, SU is decreasing (not being adjusted for inflation), the amount of hospitals has gone down quite drastically, the companies that write most government software is privatised and for hire, and on and on it goes. And even with all that it's still very expensive, as I have pointed out.