Norway was a 3rd world country with only a small fishing industry only 60 years ago

Norway was a 3rd world country with only a small fishing industry only 60 years ago.

Today it's a 1st world country with the highest GDP.

How?

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Are you retarded? By 1960 Norway was already one of the 10 richest countries in the world

Oil. They were poorer than Italy in 70s holy fuck

1. Sea access
2. Cheap to extract ant to transport oil
3. Nigh non-existent population

*and

They're simply better than you mutt, nothing more to it

Who cares, norway sucks

it's the same singapore was poor meme

they found oil

You have to go further back. They were poor until the 1900s

Norway was already rich back then. Oil just made them filthy rich on top of it.

Norway was a 3rd world country with only a small fishing industry only 60 years ago.
1951 434,365 OSLO population
1950 162,381 BURGEN population.

Norway 1950 gdp per capita 5,271
UK 1950 gdp per capita 6,939
india gdp per capita 619

It's still a poor shithole, USA is much better

>It's still a poor shithole, USA is much better
in some things, overall Norway is a much better place to live, the working class in norway doesn't have to meet negroes and mexcians.

name one (1) thing usa does better Norway
ultra hard more: no memes like "muh guns" or "muh freeze peach"

Rangeban the US.

Nah, they are our greatest ally.

They have a developed, high skill economy with a much higher ECI score

purge the amerikkkan menace

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Stop saying you love us. Sweden gets jealous and start calling us names

Norway is cool and all.
I just wish it wasn't run like a pseudo-commie state

Fjällapa

>I just wish it wasn't run like a pseudo-commie state
Do you elect your government?

I don't have voting rights, as I'm not a citizen.
I meant more in the way that they try to tax and squeeze as much money out of the people as they possibly can.

where you come from?

That doesn't sound very pseudo-commie but hardcore capitalist

Iceland.
Was offered a job here in Norway
Norwegian companies like to hire Icelanders when they can because
1. They are culturally similar to Norwegians
2. Icelanders have a stronger work ethic than Norwegians (Icelanders are basically workaholics compared to Norwegians)

Since when were lots and high amounts of taxes "hardcore capitalistic" values?

Norway has one of the lowest income taxes in Europe but people still complain. You never hear whining from the country with the highest taxes, Denmark

The only reason your income tax is so fucking ""low"" is because your government puts taxes on fucking EVERYTHING else.

That's because although they pay more income tax, their money goes a lot farther than the exact same income in Norway.

We do have high taxes on gas, personally I bought an electric car. I can charge it for free at every mall and at my job.

Tesla in Sweden and Denmark is close to a million
Tesla in Norway, 500.000

Yeah I know.
But just cause one thing, Electric cars which the government is trying to incentivize people to switch to from diesel and benzin, doesn't mean that much when everything else cost so much.
But at least on the bright side here in Norway, you guys don't have the authoritarian and sub-human organization of tolls and shipping we have in Iceland.

this, the thing is that people don't think about paying taxes for gas, alcohol, tobacco, sugar etc. because it's included in the price.

>you guys don't have the authoritarian and sub-human organization of tolls and shipping we have in Iceland.
Tell me more, I know very little about taxation on Iceland