Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "CBS Sunday Morning" channel.

  1. +Mohamed al Yahudi "Work for a living"... Seriously, look up Norwegian productivity rates... We get more work done pr manhour then in many other countries... This isn't about people not working, and you saying that is quite frankly offensive... It's about our society actually focusing on the whole human, instead of just expecting everyone to be at work 24/7 (and usually as a result being less productive as a result of being overworked)
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  2. +Mohamed al Yahudi You're referring to things like the oil. Well, news flash. That's not what most of us are living of. The germanic strategy to competiveness is to have high taxes and high worker rights to ensure that the population is mostly economically equal and more or less everyone is a middle class providing a good market for local companies and to provide infrastructure and other conditions for companies to grow like a highly educated population for free. As a matter of fact while we have a high salary on average in Norway our engineers, researchers, doctors etc are actually fairly cheap by international standards because we focus on having free education. And no, when I'm talking about productivity I'm not talking about GDP/hour worked. I'm talking about the actual amount produced pr worker be it research or pipe manufacturing or ship building or something else entierly. Yes, the thing we earn more money on in terms of export is gas and oil. But if you look at our economy most of us actually work with all sort of other things. http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/?country=163 Biological products, food (like fish), wood, paper, etc. Metals, aluminium, Nickel, Ferroalloys etc, etc. Machine parts, gas turbines etc, etc. Chemical products like fertilizers, medicines etc, etc. Electronic components, electrical wires, electrical circuits, phones, transformers, Radios, TVs, integrated circuits, and so one and so forth. For instance if you got a smart phone with a ARM chip then chances are pretty high that the iGPU of that ARM chip was designed in my home city here in Norway. Ship building with cruise ships etc, parts for motors, parts for aircrafts, parts for space crafts (both NASA and ESA buy a lot of components and even full scale things like satelites from Norway because of the cheap engineering here) There's even a few people working in textile production here. And yes, those are the people who are producing things more efficently then in many other countries. We use effective machinery and quite frankly since the Haugian movement we've had pretty decent work ethics, especially in some parts of the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haugean_movement https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Adolph_Tidemand_Low_Church_Devotion_Google_Art_Project.jpg We get more done pr manhour, not just more earned pr manhour. In part because the trade unions are just as keen on reducing the time spend at work as they are at higher salaries and the companies have to be more productive as a result. So yeah, I actually find your suggestion that we don't work for a living somewhat insulting.
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  3. +Maria Schicklgruber Actually when you adjust for peoples income then the cost of living in Norway is actually lower as a portion of the average citizens income then the cost of living in the US.
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  4. +WhiteTiger333 We live here in Norway, still we enjoy watching such programs that include other parts of Norway. A US equivalent wouldn't stay in New York for the whole ride, eventually it would move on to other parts of the country where you haven't been. Just switch to another channel during the parts you're not interested in then switch back when there's something more interesting. =)
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  5. +Mohamed al Yahudi If this helps calm people down reducing stress then this can potentially cut down the expenses on mental health. Remember that Norway got universal healthcare among other things. Anything that increase peoples wellbeing can be worth doing for the state since it can reduce other expenses.
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  6. +Daniel Breiland I agree with the idea of changing it being a bad idea. However a TV licence is just like a radio licence, car licence or motorcycle licence. It is paid for the right of ownership of said objects. Even if NRK was shut down tomorrow we'd still pay that licence fee, the money would just be used for something else. As for the way it is gathered. Yes, using the Roman approach of privatizing the licence collection to the civilians in NRK has issues assossiated with it. That's why they can request that the police search the home of people suspected of owning a TV (they hardly ever do, but that's a different matter)...
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  7. +Demo Yep, same as in Norway. =) And because it's a TV Licence and not a licence for watching NRK the TV channel I can watch NRK for free through my computer since I don't own a TV at all. They should probably add a small computer license though, but it should be less then for a TV or we'd end up with a slow down in the economy.
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