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Meanwhile, socialist Norway's wealth fund could maintain everyone's standard of living for 400 years if they stopped working right now.
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.
Whenever people say this they neglect to point out that all the money came from selling oil.
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.
Norway is not socialist in the least
Norway isn't socialist. And by "everyone" you mean just Norwegians, even though Norway's wealth was built on the backs of people in the global South.
Not to mention that Norway's public wealth is being claimed by the capitalist class, just like in every western country
Can't eat money
norway isnt socialist. they just excel at exporting capitalism's issues to the third world.
of course not, you can bet that "wealth fund" is invested in institutions that leech of the global south.
Hmmm, interesting. But what if we gave it all to one guy?