> No disrespect to either country but there's nothing like watching oil flow past in a pipe or bars of gold mature like wine in a barrel to increase wealth whil

> No disrespect to either country but there's nothing like watching oil flow past in a pipe or bars of gold mature like wine in a barrel to increase wealth while reducing total hours "working". Not like Texas' and California's oil? Or New York's finance industry? Zoom into the parts/states of the USA actually generating wealth and you will see pretty similar patterns: natural resources (Norway's case), finance (Switzerland), heavy and precision industry (Germany).