Comments by "Mosern1977" (@Mosern1977) on "Can Wealthy Norway Save Europe?" video.

Well, the Norwegian government is filthy rich, the average Norwegian doesn't see too much of this money though. People's economy in Norway has worsened (rising electricity, gas, petrol, interest rates and all sorts of prices) while the government has propped up its enormous wealth even more. Norwegian government is doing setting new record in loosing voters now and unless they turn around things have no chance in hell for a re-election.
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@mothgru things should have been cheaper and Norwegians more wealthy than ever. The fact this is not happening is testament to the poor governing of the country.
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@bubble0 - Yeah... "Better than the majority of the world" is kinda low bar, when you hit the oil/gas jackpot and have a nice and easy population to work with. Norwegians should be top 0.5% or better. But nope, people are loaded in debt and just a few have actual productive jobs. And most of the money goes to pay for the non-productive parts of society, because that shuts them up.
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@jeschinstad - the typical Norwegian lives in a modest home, have maybe one old car, and takes a trip to southern Europe one time per year. Frozen pizza instead of restaurant food is the name of the game. And he is in big debt and the government takes most of his money he earns away from him. He gets some mediocre services back, if he is lucky, and fit the government rules for those things. It is a very modest lifestyle, but he is happy knowing he is so "rich", while at the same time hardly having money to heat his home. Yeah, its very impressive.
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@glennnoway6569 - "if you want the govt to start making highways, airport and hospitals all over the place we get the Dutch Disease." - no, not true. You get the same (or even more) inflation pressure by giving people on welfare more money, or giving higher salaries to managers in the public sector. It is just an excuse used to prioritize some public spending vs. other. I will say that the poor in Norway have it pretty good compared to the rest of the world. The middle class suffer quite a lot because of that. But due to Norwegian culture being what it is, the middle class is content with low disposable income.
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@bubble0 - well the hyper rich government is now taking away all people's purchasing power, and you are unable to see it. This while at the same time filling the over-filled coffers even more. Seems like most Norwegians are kinda unhappy about it though, so that's good. At some point some of Norway's immense wealth should actually get funneled to normal working people.
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Yeah, .75 was a bit slow, but normal speed is a bit fast.
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