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Norway also ranks as seventh happiest nation in the world. Correlation or causation? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-t

• antonymoose 9mo ago
  Small, homogenous, a generous welfare system, and with a massive sovereign wealth fund thanks to wise oil exploitation.
  • dv_dt 9mo ago
    So a well managed goverment-involved outcome. The whole point is happiness, not some preconceived need for high taxes or low taxes.
    • lucaspm98 9mo ago
      Sure this seems to have worked in high-trust homogenous society with similar values and goals. They have a very high baseline of wealth given abundant natural resources that'd need active mismanagement to not have a strong economy. Extending their taxation or economic system to a larger, more populous, diverse, and economically fractured society would lose most of the reasons they're succeeding.
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      • dv_dt 9mo ago
        The question is still circumstantial correlation or causation with these factors. What you can conclude is that high taxes do not impede happiness or economic prosperity.