Comments by "Grim Affiliations" (@grimaffiliations3671) on "RealLifeLore" channel.

  1. perfect balance of capitalism and socialism
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  2.  @hevnervals  their government owns over 75% of all the wealth that isn't tied to people's homes. Extremely powerful unions and a very big welfare state
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  3.  @nilspils7447  might not be socialist, whatever that means, but it certainly does have a lot of socialism embedded into it's system, more so than most other nations on earth
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  4.  @hevnervals  They don't have majority shares in all of them, but they do for a lot of them. And the combined value of their shares, both majority and minority, coupled with the soverign wealth fund accounts for 76% of non home wealth in Norway. A wealth fund that is collectively owned and distributed is socialist, especially when it's used to fund a large welfare state. Socialism has many different variations, some emphasize firm-level worker ownership ( cooperatives), others industry-level worker ownership (syndicalists), and still others society-wide ownership (i.e. social wealth fund advocates). Some think wages and salaries are problematic (e.g. mutualists), others think product prices are problematic (decommodifiers) Alberta and saudi arabia can be said to have socialist element when it comes to their wealth funds, as can Alaska. Which of course isn't the same as saying they're socialist. Unions might not be inherently socialist, but labor unions that powerful are certainly a halmark of a socialist country and collective bargaining on that scale act as a block to the "proper functioning" of the market. And like i said, im not arguing that Norway is a socialist country (At what point does a country turn fully socialist?) im saying it's a mixed economy with, in my view, a "perfect balance of capitalism to socialism"
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  5. And they should use some of that unused federal land to build transmission lines to connect that energy to the grid
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  6.  @hevnervals  it's a distinction i made in my first comment. That is ridiculous amount of state ownership, much more than countries like Venezuella which are called socialist all the time and twice as much as China
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  7.  @hevnervals  Of course it reflects reality. They not only collectively own their oil fund, but the government also owns around one-third of the domestic stock market and 70 state-owned enterprises, which were valued at 88% of the country’s annual GDP as of 2012. Not to mention the large welfare state and extrmely powerful unions i mentioned
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  8.  @hevnervals  i said 1/3rd of the stock market, not 1/3rd of the non-home wealth, the govenerment certainly owns more than that. 76% when it's all counted up. Most oil states having wealth funds doesn't really change anything, a country with as much state ownership as Norway does would absoultely be called socialist by most, especially when you throw in the size fo their welfare state. Hell far less socialist countries like venezuella are often painted with that brush
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  9.  @hevnervals  Like i said, the state manages direct ownership of 70 state enterprises, including the real estate company Entra; the country’s largest financial services group DNB; the 30,000-employee mobile telecommunications company Telenor; and the famous state-owned oil company Statoil. And if they own 1/3rd of the equity in all the companies listed in their stock market, have a 1 trillion dollar+ wealth fund, a massive welfare state and extremely powerful unions, you'd have to be delusional to say Norway doesn't have socialism mixed into their economy
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  10.  @hevnervals  By your harsh definition of socialism, is there a single socialist country on the planet? I've always seen capitalism and socialism as existing on a spectrum in the real world. No country is completely Laissez-faire or completely communist, they all exist somewhere inbetween. And Norway i'd argue is closer to socialism than most countries on the planet, including the ones rountinely used as exmaples of the failures of socialism like venezuella, argentina etc
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  11.  @hevnervals  i think that's an overly strict definition, especially considering the many differnt takes on socialism i've mentioned. There is collective ownership, the majority of the wealth in fact, that's why i struggle with the idea that Norway can't be considered at least partially socialist. After all, isn't that the basis of a "mixed economy"? Hell the whole revisionism movement was about gradual reform rather than revolution. Good discussion regardless
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  12. What is that study called? And sadly Texas will flip soon as well. The dem areas are where all the population growth is
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  13. Higher taxes = better services
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  14. @devildog5354 ?
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  15. It should have 1 senator, its basically a suburbs of Colorado
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  16. This empty place has as many senators as cali 😆
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  17. Thats why Texas will open 5o the dems soon
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  18. They're not woke compared to other states with smaller dem majorities
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  19. It should own 100%
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  20. The wait problem assumes humanity will exist on earth for another thousand years. If something terrible happens here on earth, the inhabitants of the generation ship will be our last hope
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  21. You don't have to worry about people moving in, trust me
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  22. Funnily enough i got a bunch of stuff in my pickup stolen in Wyoming
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  23.  @hevnervals  it actually owns 76% of the non-home wealth
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  24. It's crazy that yall have 2 whole senators for that tiny population
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  25. Its to differentiate between other Indians
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  26. Free to do what?
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  27. By 15 minute city do you mean getting rid of zoning regulations? Getting rid of those california style regulations is a good thing, which is why many republican states are doing it including Florida
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