norway

There is a big difference between the wealth of individual norwegians, and the wealth of Norway the state and the gdp/capita of Norway.

Being a taxi driver in Norway or Denmark doesn't mean you live in near-poverty and have to work 80 hours a week to make ends meet.

The happiest countries in the world are Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada according to the World Happiness index.

To put this into perspective, Norway is just over half the population of New York City.

When there's surplus wind energy, Sweden and Norway scales back on hydro and import from Denmark and Germany (through Denmark) instead.

Sweden, Norway and Finland all had monarchies, a landed gentry, and a peasant class.

And they all are known as tax havens except for Norway which has half a million dollars of oil reserves per citizen:).

Oil is largely the reason Norway is better off than Denmark and Sweden.

Thailand seems like it has more Norwegians than Norway during the winter.

It probably makes a political difference yes, but I mean that if you woke a swede in norway, they wouldn't really notice apart from that everyone sounded funny.

As a result, Norway now owns 1% of all global stocks.

The use of wind in Norway hovers around zero percent.

We don't consider Norway and the norwegians "rich" when we visit.

> Subsitute Norway for non-oil Sweden, a country with huge immigration Sweden is also comparably small (same size as NYC proper), and much of the "huge immigration" comes from other Scandinavian countries or EU member states.

Norway) that don't have a disproportionally large banking sector, and some which do but recently failed (Cyprus, Iceland).

Over time Norway's GDP expansion almost perfectly matches the increased production domestically and price increases globally.

It's not a coincidence that the startup scene is nearly non-existent where unions have a strong presence (France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway).