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You know what's even more shocking about the attitude of the nordic countries? It works pretty nicely, try visiting those places.

• londons_explore 3y ago
  The huge oil reserves and tiny population make it much easier to give everyone a good quality of life... It also masks the effects of inefficient decisionmaking.
  • hef19898 3y ago
    Only Norway has oil so, Denmark Sweden and Finland much less so.
    • londons_explore 3y ago
      https://geology.com/usgs/oil-shale/estonia-sweden-oil-shale.shtml https://geology.com/usgs/oil-shale/estonia-sweden-oil-shale....
      • hef19898 3y ago
        And just how much money are tzey making of that? Oil nation money?
        • sakjur 3y ago
          It depends a little bit on what you're counting. Prospecting and extracting oil is illegal as of july last year (SFS 2022:728), but Sweden is exporting a fair amount of refined petroleum.
• hef19898 3y ago
  But those countries are socialist hell holes! /s Of course they are not, and trusting the government to do the right thing isn't too bad a position neither. After, we vote for them.