• miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Meanwhile, socialist Norway’s wealth fund could maintain everyone’s standard of living for 400 years if they stopped working right now.

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      6 months ago

      Whenever people say this they neglect to point out that all the money came from selling oil.

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        6 months ago

        They forget to point out that only dumbfuck yanks would consider Norway to be socialist, so the comment, in a meme community, is misleading from the get-go.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Norway funds its safety nets off of super-exploitation of the Global South, ie Imperialism. It is firmly Capitalist and in no way Socialist, private property is the primary driving aspect of Norway’s economy, the higher standard of living comes from acting as a Landlord in country form.

      • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Its so fucking dumb, you wouldn’t believe it! If he isn’t retarded and have an Elon Musk moment then he would and this is making me genuinely sick contribute to society, theoretically making a net plus to society