Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "It's Hard to Believe, But What Norway Is Doing Will Make It the Richest Country" video.

True but most of the time it is, look at Africa, continent richest when it comes to natural resources yet it's the poorest continent by far. It does not matter how many natural resources and advantageous geography if your leaders are selling your resources cheap for a few bribes.
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Their government is rich, not the actual residents.
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Yep, Norwegians are generally well off but when you say they are rich they are not, their socialist government is rich but that does not mean the average citizen see the money their government is concentrating.
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yep, that's what happens. I used to live and work in my home country of Sweden, there literally was no point for us to work overtime because we got put in a higher tax bracket and would not really see any financial benefit from working extra. I always told my foreign friends, if you are looking to work hard and earn money then don't go to Scandinavia.
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@jeschinstad Does not work like that, my country, Sweden have the same philosophy now we are the gun murder capital of Europe. Only thing that has reduced the crime rate is harsher punishments - the opposite of what you are suggesting.
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Implement that policy and the country will fall within 2 months. Who is going to invest in new businesses and pay salaries when all wealthy people are gone?
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Yep that is socialism
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That's due to socialist policies, concentrate the wealth to the state and keep it there.
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Because a lot of nannies are not ordinary workers and quite a lot of them are not on proper work visas. If the pay is bad change job... but I guess if you don't actually have permission to work you can't and will be taken advantage of.
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@ShrekThePimp Finding oil does not equate to efficiency and adaptability
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nah you should not stop people from taking THEIR money with them. They made that money, it's none of the government's business what they do with it. You know what country has that policy? China. Yeah you really want to live in a communist country then you can go there. The high taxes on the wealthy is just an illusion, the richest of the country will find the loop holes the politicians put in place and put their money in tax havens while the Middle class are the ones stuck with picking up the bill. They are not poor but they are not rich enough to hire all those lawyers and financial advisers to help them escape the tax like the wealthy. The infrastructure built was funded by those very same companies being taxed and the people that were provided jobs taxed, there is a reason why most infrastructure usually is concentrated around areas such as ports and industries. Because they make tax revenue for the state. The state needs them to thrive, they don't really need the state if they did not pay tax they could use that money to build their own roads. I am Swedis,h our richest person used to be the founder of IKEA, guess where he was living? Switzerland. Why? Well lower taxes. Like I said it is an illusion that the richest pay high taxes.
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@brettwalkom948 Everyone is like that, the US have a lot of environmental protection laws yet US companies just open up factories abroad in countries without those restrictions. It is silly yes, the inhabitants say they care about the environment and want to protect it, yet their behaviour just push those environmental non friendly practices to another country.
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