A framework reinforced by a history of the middle

"few have too much and fewer have too little"
That is the guiding mantra of Danish society. It is rooted in a history of embracing small scale agriculture. When the rest of the industrializing world fostered a continuing feudalistic system of land ownership stemming out of the dark ages, effectively widening the gap between peasants and aristocrats, Denmark's land reforms of the 1780's went in the opposite direction. Through engaging in talks with large landowners, incentives were created to encourage the disbursement of land and rights from a few to many. Voices of peasants and workers were given fair representation, and the idea of a middle class was in effect born out of Denmark's history of agricultural land ownership.