@djc i don’t anything makes them egalitarian. i think it was a political project, a thing they did. it’s been successful, but it always faces challenges that might undermine it. “reforms” made when neoliberalism was ascendant altered the tradeoffs, probably for better and for worse. immigration and perceptions that immigrants don’t live up to the reciprocality and solidarity that are the normative scaffolding for Nordic egalitarianism are a contemporary challenge they are working to address.