[jayski]

I visited 2 years ago, it made me rethink everything I thought about society.

The parliament has no guards, you can just walk in and talk to one of your representatives. Who BTW all biked there, evidenced by all the bikes outside. 95%+ of people look to be thin and fit. Everyone looks happy.

A common misconception is that the Danes success is their system. I like how this article frames it around trust, because that is really the core issue. The system is almost irrelevant if you have decent,honorable people participating in it.

[fvdessen]

You can have a system that produces decent, honorable people, and systems that do the exact opposite

[jayski]

true, but as long as we're talking about a democratic society. it would be improbable that kind of people decide on a counterproductive system.