That is a very simplistic attitude. First of all, I have met countless entrepreneurs who support this "scheme", just to counter your anecdotal evidence. Second, shouldn't a "welfare scheme" benefit the poor, not exist at the expense of them? Are you arguing that the danish welfare system failed in what could be considered it's most essential undertaking? Third, "benefits the majority at the expense of the productive few" doesn't ring true to me. You make it sound like the "productive few" do not receive the same benefits as everyone else, and that the fact that everyone else receives benefits is inconsequential. It's not. Time and again (financial) equality in society has proven to be immeasurably beneficial, in so many regards.