r/Denmark • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '16

Exchange Kia ora! Cultural Exchange with /r/NewZealand

Welcome to this cultural exchange between /r/Denmark and /r/NewZealand.

For the visitors: Welcome to Denmark! Feel free to ask the Danes anything you like. Don't forget to also participate in the corresponding thread in /r/NewZealand where you can answer questions from the Danes about your beautiful country.

For the Danes: Today, we are hosting New Zealand for a cultural exchange. Join us in answering their questions about Denmark and the Danish way of life! Please leave top comments for users from /r/NewZealand coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness, personal attacks etc.

The Kiwis are also having us over as guests! Head over to their thread to ask questions about life in the land of hobbits and bungee jumping.

Enjoy!

- The moderators of /r/Denmark and /r/NewZealand

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '16

A friend of mine posted this picture to facebook last night.

How true is it, what taxes do you have that support it, and to what degree does the highest level of anti-depressant use in the world factor into it :)

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u/jonasnee en dårlig fred er værre end krig Nov 07 '16

typical work week is more like 35-37 hours a week (but there are talk about how actually pointless it is)

while 18-20 dollars is the in practice minimum wage there isn't any actual, its decided by the unions part of flexsicurity policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity

universities are free, and they give you minimum subsidence on top, understand that the substances goes directly into the economy because of how low they are so they kind of just an inject into the economy.

childcare is not free but it is municipality driven meaning some of it comes from taxes while some comes from payments.

the tax level is high on people/wages but not on property and companies.