I’m Danish so I can chip in who this is targeted at. A few of our larger corporations like Danske Bank (the one from the money laundering scandals) aimed at paying out its stock owners 8,50dkr per share while simultaneously planning to fire hundreds of employees to pay for their mishaps and Covid problems. Other companies that are less evil planned similar things.

Now Danske Bank is planning on using those money to secure their business going forward, and we expect some companies to follow this route. Others will go a head with their firings, like Vestas, to make sure share holders get richer.

Now this is not something we actually want in Denmark. I know it’s capitalism, but our most recent election results showed a record support of our social democracy. We’ve never had less support for liberalism (which is our branch of capitalism) than we do now since the end of WW2. So we value people keeping their jobs above shareholders making money.

I personally think we should be even tougher on taxing the rich. If we know companies sit in tax-havens then we should really do something about that, shouldn’t we