Exactly, that's what happened in these countries sadly, hits very close to home. People got paid for doing nothing while the government bled out. Of course you can't really force them to work or study. The way it was implemented you basically got a pension just for being poor. On the other hand the benefits of hard work weren't worth much more due to high taxes for everyone in the middle class segments (small companies, employees, etc).
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I have travelled in Sweden last year. I went to Norway a few years before this. All I have seen there is the opposite of what you say. They are very wealthy countries. Where do you get your information from? I checked the evolution of GDP, unemployement rates, public debt of sweden. All this is good. And Norway is even richer and wealthier.
I was talking about South America countries, sorry for the confusion!