TottsSome of you are too young to remember when we found the 'black gold' in the North Sea ....
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@Geri As someone looking to immigrate there, it is really a cool system. The important things the government controls, but there is still a lot of room for fun innovative things. Norwegians are fearless because they can try new things, and if they fail, they fail. It's not the end of the world. It's just money. It's paper. People don't starve because of failure. If they will starve because of failure, then government controls it.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKI remember learning from a friend who lived in Scandinavia why Norway didn't join EU, is to a great extent because they didn't want to be forced into neoliberal policies of privatisation (but they still contribute to all socially beneficial parts of EU, even stuff like counting wildlife and spend their taxpayers money on this without too much drama, whereas even when UK was in EU many folk resented every penny spent on the social aspects (but still wanted the "Common Market" so their businesses could make money
@vfrmedia @Geri I've yet to have any of my Norwegian friends complain about costs and taxes. And it's not like austere soviet Russia, they drive fun cars that are all different, and are very individualistic. But not at the cost of wellness towards others. They like having money for fun stuff, but they also don't want people dieing from lack of basic necessities. The nordic model really does prove you can have have your cake and eat it too