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                                Leviathan III

> Why are the Nordic countries doing this? The obvious answer is that they
> have reached the limits of big government. “The welfare state we have is
> excellent in most ways,” says Gunnar Viby Mogensen, a Danish historian. “We
> only have this little problem. We can’t afford it.” The economic storms
> that shook all the Nordic countries in the early 1990s provided a foretaste
> of what would happen if they failed to get their affairs in order.
>

Via Hacker News [1], “Norther lights | The Economist [2]”

You know … if the Nordic countries are saying they've reached peak
government, do you think we might actually have reached peak government?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/
[2] http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570840-

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