It's Hard to Believe, But What Norway Is Doing Will Make It the Richest Country

[@zinclar111]

Norway has also found a huge rare mineral deposits that’s worth more than all the combined oil reserves Norway has. So Norway will continue to be a rich country even after they stop extracting oil. 🇳🇴😎

[@bendikkirkbakk1833]

It's estimated to 24 trillions. We Norway will be insanly rich

[@Zyzyx442]

@@bendikkirkbakk1833 Not with AP/SV/SP/MDG in government, the NOK has lost value.

[@SmokeStack-yk3kz]

Still we Norwegians get robbed by the power companies each month! Electrical bills are ridiculously high! So much of your info about Norway is not fully researched ore told! I would love to live in the fairytale Norway you speak about!!!

[@JanHagen]

Relative to income we still pay less than most countries.

[@reinokarvinen8845]

I thought power bills are cheap in norway because all their hydropower

[@GnosticAtheist]

Have you travelled the world? I have. We are filthy rich compared to the middle-lower classes of most countries. A worker in a low skill job in this country earns more money by buying power than a middle class individual in most other countries. Indeed, workers ARE middle class here. Of course its not a fairly tale, but unless you fall off completely and do not work, you are far better of here then anywhere as a regular person.

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

Rubbish, at least her in Northern Norway. Our electricity bill is less than half compared to 5-6 years ago. We rarely have a bill that exceeds 1500 NOK ($120-130) per month in the winter, and it used to be 3000+ (less in the summer, of course). And the video is pretty accurate on most stuff.

[@LuniZZs]

@@GnosticAtheist only reason is because of your HUGE prices on food and basically thing ppl need you take the dobble what its worth. its why lots of you take the trip to DK so you can drink your brains out and smoke some ciggis ;)

[@nobodynoonenowhere5609]

Talking about small country,how about Singapore?No natural resources,no coal mine,no coastline etc yet it is among the wealthiest nation in the world. Let's talk about it, Steve.❤❤😊

[@arker-n8c]

Singapore dogs&cats meat multi billions dollar resources businesses!

[@Yerinjibbang]

yes im from singapore lol

[@arker-n8c]

Singapore sell dogs meat!

[@arker-n8c]

@@Yerinjibbang Singapore sell dogs meat!

[@arker-n8c]

Nobody does not want to talk about Singapore!

[@Horrormannen]

You should also make a video why Norwegian government becoming richer while Norwegians getting poorer :)

[@stefanz9485]

Yes, but it affects literally all governments of all nations (feel free to correct this statement should you know any country where the government behaves different - I don’t know any)

[@elementalgolem5498]

this is a factually wrong statement, Norwegians are growing richer and richer year over year, massively increasing their wealth and are one of the few people in the world that are RICHER than their parents were, something that's almost unheard of other places in the west, where the boomer generation hogs all the wealth. so not sure where you got this info from bud but its just outright wrong.

[@MajorBuzzKill]

@@elementalgolem5498 Its just the classic situation where no matter how good you have it you always have something to complain about. Even people in the most wealthy nation complain they are not wealthy enough, nothing is ever enough.

[@tordlindgren2123]

@@elementalgolem5498 I'm not richer than my parents. seen it with my own eyes, you're wrong. In fact i've not seen a single person that have gotten richer than their boomer or even gen x parents here. In fact there's a dire work shortage here, artificially created by importing polish workers. workforce is about 4.5 million people, there's 2 million polish workers here. if you're under 40 you're gonna have a hard time without a degree or someone to hold the door open for you into a job, because without it all you're gonna get is a temporary contract and a summer job.

[@Error2username]

​@@MajorBuzzKillit is only class differences, No matter how wealthy the country is, No one takes care of those who fall out of society

[@northgamingx]

You forgot to mention the new big found in Norway and it is Fen Carbonatite Complex in the southeast of the country boasts 8.8 million metric tons of total rare earth oxides (TREOs) with a reasonable prospect for economic extraction which can be used in electric vehicles and wind turbines etc. And Norway is working to develop the first stage of mining by 2030. This is big for Norway of course but also rest of the European and world. Experts expects that the deposit will become significantly larger in the long term. These magnet-related rare earth metals are ranked by the EU as the most critical raw materials. And we al know oil will end some time and this found is the new era for the Norwegian. Nice video 👍

[@lassekvalheim5980]

As a Norwegian its really impressive how you narrative everything in such short segment. But you are absolutely on point on every word on this video! Really the two last minutes, pay notice there, Norwegians are leaving Norway. The socialistic nightmare has gone out of controll in my home country of Norway.

[@sheilaathay2034]

Yes. I was just about to say just that! So socialist. People have trouble saving money to leave, or do anything. It's like a well fed prison.

[@tordlindgren2123]

@@sheilaathay2034 it's not really about the socialism. it's about some factions making it difficult to get a proper job. Combine that with people in government constantly dicking around to embezzle money for themselves and making it difficult to make any new policies that's worth anything and you have a nightmare for those at the economical bottom. - My source is that i live in norway and just so happen to have lived through that for over one and half decades by now.

[@MajorBuzzKill]

@@tordlindgren2123 This goes to show no one is ever happy and nothing is ever enough, no matter how much you have you always want more.

[@markpashia7067]

@@tordlindgren2123 Sounds like you let corruption enter the government. That will always ruin a good thing if you let it. Elect competent, moral people and police the heck out of industry and lobbyists and never give an inch. If what you say is true, it will be very hard to reverse by this time but it can be done with hard work. PS keep major regulations on media types who use propaganda to misinform.

[@mr.g5593]

Jeg er også norsk men synes det er helt fint i Norge ikke alt men bedre en fleste andre i denne verden. Alle kan ikke være millionærer

[@cooigaming1633]

Us norwegian farmers are getting oppressed.

[@thatjeff7550]

How are Norwegian farmers being oppressed? I'm genuinely curious in that I wonder how y'all compare to how US farmers are being oppressed.

[@cooigaming1633]

@thatjeff7550 so basically, the income of the norwegian farmers is not to live of (you have to make a major investment to build a bigger farm so you get more money) because most of the farms are small, we have enough land and money to host many farmers and farms but the farmers lost there wealth in the 80s. You hear about the socialism and all that but in the end the money blind pricks in Oslo sit with the wealth in the nation.

[@cooigaming1633]

@@thatjeff7550 they are also cutting the funding and killing the economy of the small towns and villages inland

[@thatjeff7550]

@@cooigaming1633 okay, gotcha. Here in the US it's a little more convoluted. First, if you're a small farm, you're pretty much screwed. Produce prices are such that in order to make a profit you have to have a large farm for the volume of product to make a profit, plus you're pretty much stuck into farming one crop. Then there's the issue of all seeds coming from one company (Monsanto) and you can't hold back seed crops to replant in the next year because (A) those seeds are "intellectual property of Monsanto and (B) half of the seed crops grow sterile so it wouldn't work anyway. Then there's the fact a quite a bit of our farming is for produce that isn't even food for humans--it's corn products for animals, industrial uses (e.g. corn starch, corn syrup, and the like), and fuel additives. And then there's the federal subsidies that try to hold down food prices but really only enrich the large farm corporations. We have farms that are paid NOT to grow produce. It's a massive problem here but no one wants to serious address it because corporations make a LOT of money off of it and the politicians in the farming areas do as well.

[@cooigaming1633]

@@thatjeff7550 its just screwed:/ but the grind continues i guess

[@rolfberntzen8991]

I live in Norway. The fact is that our state accumulate the Wealth , But the people are left in powerty! Many families are in quesevery week to get a bag of food. Our political system is similar to the kommunists.

[@carold7713]

Thanks for this info. One of the reasons I like this channel is comments from the country in question. You have burst my bubble though! I assumed the social support would be high. I'm from Australia and the widening disparity does my head in.

[@akraen1858]

@@carold7713 I've lived in Oslo, outside Ålesund, and in Helgeland (Nordland), the comment about communism doesn't make any sense. Further, the errors he made in English are not typical errors from Norwegians speaking English so everything is highly suspect about @rolfbentzen8991. It is true that the wealth fund is extremely limited, it is also true that we have some corruption and regulatory capture here which leads to some problems. GDP is definitely a bad metric to be using, but there is barely any poverty here compared to other western countries and nothing at all like what he suggested in his comment. The poorest areas here do have some food banks, but it works more like a grocery store you can go into, fill a cart, and simply not pay (but the items in the food bank are controlled so it isn't junk food). I won't defend every aspect of Norway, but it is unrealistic to say things like 'bag of food' or that there are queues. There aren't enough people in the country to form a queue even if we all line up :D

[@markussmedhus9717]

I live in Norway and I'm doing great thanks to a strong social apparatus. Sounds like you're just not communist enough, buddy. Sucks to suck v(._.)v

[@harjotemnewo8892]

GOD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY NORWAY!!!, WE LOVE YOU!!!!❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[@milk11111]

Norway is also top 3 the happiest country in the world. Scandinavia are in always top 5. I`m from Norway and are not among the happy ones. But no complaints. We have it good.

[@ClemensKatzer]

Similar here in Finland. Nobody is super happy and cheerful, but life is ok. It should be called "Contentness" or "my life is not miserable" ranking.

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

If you believe all domestic flights within Norway are under 1h30m, then you need to re-check your sources. It's a VERY long-stretched country. And btw, the electric airplane experiment in Norway is on hold, mainly because the factory in Italy which was supposed to make these planes, have backed out.

[@motordiverse1276]

Hi ! I am from Norway ! Very good information ! :-) Actually I am happy that we are rich though. Every place...is my theory...can be rich. Avoid war and childish ego stuff...and root out as much and fast as you can of ...evil. Already more than 100 year ago we was on brink og war f.ecs. with Sweden...but they solved it in Karlstad meetings after hard discussions ... and they avoided war... The peoples moral is also high on being productive ....go to work...contribute. :-)

[@earlysda]

Norway still holds to some basic Christian values which most of Europe seems to have turned their backs on.

[@hallysis5439]

@@earlysdaYou say that but most fellow norwegians i know are not religious at all, me included. We are good people not because of religion, but basic human decency.

[@earlysda]

@@hallysis5439 hally, are you saying you don't know the history of your own country?

[@motordiverse1276]

@@hallysis5439 Hi ! But many of us are Christian leaning or believes in God..and has those moral ethic accordingly. But u right...many also just has common sense decency...or grown up with nurturing empathy and those sides...of human interaction. He he anyway it does not make sense to not be rich and successful ... I do not know the statistic if there are one...on true religious believers versus those that believe not in divine, creation...or univers intelligent or those things. I guess new generation tend to have lost believe more and more. How it will be in future...is now for many very ...very difficult to forsee....but if the world continue to exist...i guess many parts of the world will there be better and better...just as in the history of Norway.

[@stranarn1]

Yes , they are going to far , but on the other side , I love Norway , I've worked there for 30 years , and now I'm a happy Veteran 😅😘👍

[@JamesTrammell-k5n]

I'm so glad I found this channel it's very informative and down right entertaining thanks I'll always be watching and learning James

[@Henry-x6v]

Unfortunately, not all of us were financially literate early. I was 35 when I finally educated myself and started taking steps. I went from $176,000 in debt with zero savings or retirement to now, 2 years later, fully debt-free and over $1000,000 net worth. I know that doesn't SOUND like a lot, but I'm incredibly proud of it. Now l'm fast-tracking my wealth building (investing $400,000 annually) and don't owe a dime to anyone. It's a good feeling.,,

[@Mary-j7v6i]

I'm glad you made this video, I can recall when I was homeless and faced with many things in Life until $75,000 biweekly began rolling in and my Life went from A homeless nobody to a different person with good things to offer!!!!!!❤️

[@NeliaViola]

HOW !! I know it's possible , I would appreciate if you show me how to go about it .

[@Mary-j7v6i]

It's Angela Phyllis Martin doing she changed my life. A BROKER- like her is what you need.

[@Mary-j7v6i]

$_700k and yet still counting on Angela Phyllis Martin is the kind of person one needs in his or her life to be honest❤️❤️❤️>>>>

[@Kati-Hafenrichter7]

😱Sounds familiar, I have heard her name on several occasions.. and both her success stories in the wall Street journal

[@jens-markusditlefsen9992]

Students, can't afford places to live while studying, because of high rent prices. Electricity, is extremely expensive. Only 60% can afford vacation. Food prices extremely high, and people are struggling. Police can't afford to patrole, becuase of low budgets, but they can afford to send money to war countries.19 police estates has been taken down for second time because of low budgets. Politicians are wasting money. High criminal rates, are rising, and police is struggling. Norway is have a big fishing industry, but going to market to buy is almost only for rich people. Only low quality products for the people. Yeh, Norway very rich haha, not the people!

[@bioliv1]

So true, and they sell out our nature to wind industry. Without the nature, no reason to stay, so we move to Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Thanks for the only sane comment here 🙂

[@conformists2]

Everyone keeps saying the COL in Norway is high and so I looked up the cost of living in Oslo and let me tell you I'd rather be poor in Norway than in NYC where I live now 💀 I'm super jealous of your "high" prices.

[@thatjeff7550]

I'm skeptical that air travel will be able to go totally electric, even if it's Norway.

[@RogueSecret]

there is no point in that after Copenhagen Atomics have mass produced their small thorium nuclear reactors, then we have them in planes, ships, trucks and houses.

[@soral9999]

You forgot that they also have the worlds biggest deposit of phosphate....that they havent bothered mining up yet. They estimate the deposit to have the same value as all of the oil they have sold, and yet to be sold. Among other rare minerals they have found but havent touched yet.

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"It's Hard to Believe, But What Norway Is Doing Will Make It the Richest Country"

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"This Is Why Norway is Becoming the World's Richest Country"

[@icosthop9998]

The very rich are leaving

[@lorettaross2007]

Good morning, Steve! You`re up to something and I have figured out what it is! You1re trying to educate all of us dummies, Your doing a really good job with some of us! LOL. keep up the good work! It is interesting!

[@beckypennington79]

Thanks for the video Happy holidays❤

[@kristianmassameyer6090]

as a dane, i was impressed by this lecture. I really would like to see/hear your lecture about mining the uranium. because I think THAT is a really problem .

[@Felinefenom]

Norway is GORGEOUS 😍 Hi Steve

[@bioliv1]

We're so poor in culture and beauty, even the nature is sold out for wind power plants. We leave!

[@Hiddensecret9]

Norway has used its oil wealth wisely, but its reliance on natural resources can lead to a “resource trap,” where the economy becomes too reliant on a single industry and becomes vulnerable to falling oil prices. While it has established a Sovereign Wealth Fund to invest and sustain growth, other countries are also investing heavily in technology, innovation, and renewable energy, which will create strong competition in the future.

[@buzzwildofficial]

It does not matter how rich Norway is when the government and politicians are ruining it by giving away the resources to the EU and Norway isn't a member of the EU (they just kiss ass to be honest) majority of the Norwegian people are suffering from insane electricity bills, food process up 40% the last year is insane

[@MR-ub6sq]

4:19 "All started with the thriving export of Norwegian Timber and wood to the United Kingdom in northern Europe..." I think those timber merchant ships are pretty much lost on their way to the UK... But they will get there a year or so after they leave...

[@benjilafouine]

Wealth is not necessarily due to merit. The geography and natural resources of a given country play a big role in being rich or poor. If your country is in the Sahara desert, the options are way more limited.

[@zjeee]

True but most of the time it is, look at Africa, continent richest when it comes to natural resources yet it's the poorest continent by far. It does not matter how many natural resources and advantageous geography if your leaders are selling your resources cheap for a few bribes.

[@richiehoyt8487]

​@@zjeee Indeed, but the same is true with regard to how smart or industrious your people are - it won't count for much if your country is run by some kleptocratic monster, no doubt with the support of some enormous foreign mining or drilling concern, or the government of one of the big, foreign powers!

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

Except, Norway is really poor on natural resources. We have very little land for faming, meaning we either need to do twice the work for food, or import it for higher prices. Our "wealth" of fishing, everybody can fish, our huge woods, nothing prevent other countries from having their own woods, except you get more money producing food in the land. Norway wealth, comes from hard work ethic. And that is about to collapse with our cultural shift and imported migrants.

[@pompejio]

Are we ignoring the fact that Norway has only 5,5 million inhabitants..? :-) Of course they are as rich as the smaller european countries. Especially when almost all of oil and gas can be sold. To be fair, they have many good ideas to sustain growth and solve their problems for good. One is not to join the EU.

[@54m0h7]

Electric cars make good sense for a country that is exporting electricity. Most countries however...

[@qualicumwilson5168]

Did you miss this?:- "A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest". This phosphate alone is expected to push Norway's Sovereign fund to over 1,000,000$ US per capital in the next decade. That is in 2023 US dollar value. Also not including the oil and gas and other existing revenue streams.

[@tovelynnhaagensen3491]

And a lot of Thorium as well... Lot better energy then windmills that wreck nature

[@sagarah8217]

From what was said, one way to help the climate would be to ban tourism?

[@morgellon7877]

In order to ban tourism, one must utilize a government system that is itself inherently bad for the climate. There is no way to effectively prohibit anything without such a massive ecologically malignant social organism.

[@jeschinstad]

Tourism isn't inherently a problem for the environment. Norway is world leader in zero-emission shipping and we are planning to require that for cruise ships as well.

[@sagarah8217]

@ meant more world wide. Norway is “kicking ass” in most areas 🤙

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

@@jeschinstad Not planning, we're doing it. The socalled "world inheritance" fjords (Nærøyfjorden, Geiranger) will only allow zero-emission cruise ships from 2026, and the list will gradually be extended.

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

If the goal was to reduce co2, then yes. But most of the climate change projects, is just ways to scam of tax money. So, they pretend to care, while getting money from the government to buy electric motors, that will need to be replaced in less than 10 years, because it turns out they do not work well in salt water.

[@northeastalliance-nea9502]

Merry Christmas in advance

[@stevenrn6640]

Wow.... A wealth tax sucks... Imagine that. I am not use to seeing Norway makes such gross blunders of management.

[@jeschinstad]

I love it, actually. It's much better to be able to only pay 1% of your total assetts once you've become rich than having to pay taxes on your income every year. There's currently enormous amounts of propaganda directed at Norway after we closed a loophole that made Norway entirely tax free.The people who exploited it wants to pretend that it had something to do with the taxes rather than for instance one man being paid 20 billion NOK of taxpayers money to not spend more than 182 days per year for five years.

[@markpashia7067]

Wealth taxes combined with proper loopholes is essential to keep a society connected to all levels. It is the carrot and stick approach. One without the other is not workable, but together they have always done well to make large groups work together for the common good.

[@ShrekThePimp]

​@jeschinstad you just confirm you don't know how the tax system works. The owner has to get dividends from the company to pay that wealth tax. Tax on dividend is 37.5% And the wealth tax is only paid by Norwegian owners. Basically it will move ownership of Norwegian companies to foreigners. It will be less entrepreneurship and innovation.

[@markpashia7067]

@@ShrekThePimp Or the owner could take more in wages and spend the rest on higher wages for all of his employees to create a more just society around him. Choices. They gave him a carrot and a stick but he wants a carrot and no stick because he is greedy and selfish. A nation with a small wealth gap is the most productive and happiest. Up till now they have abused dividends to game the tax system and that is not working out very well. The obvious answer is to extend it to any owner, foreign or domestic.

[@ShrekThePimp]

@markpashia7067 😂extend it to foreign owners and there won't be any business left. They will simply setup shop in for example Sweden instead. And we will be left with state owned businesses aka communism.

[@diyabarkathzainulabidheen2067]

Keep up ur amazing vids

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

It’s a well known stereotype that Norway was poor before the finding of the oil, perpetuated by foreign countries, but we where actually ahead of our time in comparison to other countries at the time. Norway has plenty of natural resources and besides ship building we exported timber. So by that time’s standards we wasn’t really “poor”.

[@earlysda]

kili, nice joke.

[@rothed16]

Your videos on Norway snd a few others have really made me wisg i had dual citizenship or just flat out lived there. At my age now I would not fit into the work to be a citizen very well now, but also I don't like the cold!😢😂

[@jamesgoode9246]

When will Norway start generating electricity using tidal flows in their fjords?

[@okklidokkli]

The technology isn't good enough, and the electricity is too expensive and can not compete with hydro, solar and wind.

[@jamesgoode9246]

@@okklidokkli -- Technology can be improved. When the difficulties become obvious with discarding solar panels and windmill parts, those technologies will probably be declared non-sustainable.

[@Guebre-t8m]

The perfect country in the making in a grand way .

[@ichhabe330]

Lot of negative Norwgian voices as expected since we have had it relatively well the last 30 years. We are not used to high energy prices so people moan about it. But when all is counted, we live a good life here in Norway and I am greatful and happy to have been born here.

[@sveintjsvoll5546]

Yes many of us are grateful .But are you one of them have gone to a dentist without tousands of dollars in your pocket ?? .are you one of them who has children as Students that almost must live in a container to survive . Are you one of them standing in kew in Salvation Army to get a meal .Are you one of them who have parents that cant live in a old home but have to live allne in their heir little stove when they are 95 - 100 years old Are you one them that have an empty pocket book each time you shall try to shop some Food ..I am lucky to have just enough to get my head over wather and I am gratefull of that.But what about the smallest i speak about .why arent you menshen some of them ?? Why arent you menshen some pentionists that are been killed with taxes and so on each time they are going to an apotek or a doctor just to have to waith for many months just to be examinated and medicated. Is unbeliveble. What are you seeing ?? Is it only yourself that arent complaining or is it your poor neighbour with any love to him or her that need more then you are able to imagine according your words ..Wake up man for your socalled rich neighbours that is very poor .Thats the trought..🦧🐒🐵😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢And ofcourse the politicians never complained they have only 20 000 billion Of KR on Count ..So the poir ones is in the Category of this richdom offcourse ..They cant even usecthis money they say .Whatxa great lie.. whstxabout countrys as Saudi Arabia that are living of the oil money in everything .How come they havent no inflation but a very strong economi .And why can theyvuse billion to help for eks Hamas and DICTATURES as that even China belive it or not true is it anyvay .and a Atomic piwer as Pakistan who is using billins of dollars in millitary weapons how can Nowsy gibmve billion of dollars to this .Its for us normally people more then unbeliveble. I want a real answer of trought from you if its possible .We have enough of politicians that are pissing our own people spesiell the poorest right in their face and at same time killing us them with taxes when we are thexdocalked richedt country on earth ..Where is the Socalled brain does it exist .???? 😢😅😢😅😢😅😢😅😢😅😢😅🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫Continue to send our billions to Sahara or the other Camel countrys who is full of oil from before...🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐷🐷🐷🐷🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🐽🐖🐽🐖🐽🐖🐽🐖🐔🦃🐔🦃🐔🦃🐔🦃🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸May be this brains is the smartest of them all i vill think ❤❤❤❤

[@mikei7498]

“Permanent residents” is key here - you are discounting the socialist drain from tens of millions of third world economic invaders in northern Europe alone which takes that ridiculous annual average down significantly but only someone capable of unbiased thinking could figure that one out

[@tinnathedogteapotthehuman3967]

FRP will fix it :) GO SYLVI!

[@Faddnn]

Populist do not solve anything.

[@markussmedhus9717]

Funny how whenever someone claim to be unbiased they, uh, tend to be not that.

[@fantasyflare]

My partner is a nanny, may not be a glamorous role but it's a community health resource and families can be really positive, it shouldn't be like slavery, just pay them enough to live decently and have a possibility to have their own families. Where I live, unfortunately that is definitely not the case. Nannies Paying Toronto Canada rent don't get privilege of having a livelihood to afford a house and family much less be able to afford their own nanny that's for sure.

[@ahkkariq7406]

The scheme in question is not ordinary workers, but au pairs, foreign young women who came to the country to work looking after children and doing simple housework. The scheme exists in many countries, and has often been used by girls who want to experience another country and learn a foreign language and at the same time live in the country where the language is spoken while working part-time. They are supposed to have free board and lodging, as well as enough pocket money - a salary which, compared to other work, is low, at least in Norway. The scheme has now been discontinued in Norway. You can still hire people to look after your children, but they will now have ordinary employment contracts. Something only rich people can afford. A family with a slightly above-average income could afford to hire an au pair instead of sending their children to daycare. Being an au pair is not a profession, but something you do for a short period of time in your life.

[@zjeee]

Because a lot of nannies are not ordinary workers and quite a lot of them are not on proper work visas. If the pay is bad change job... but I guess if you don't actually have permission to work you can't and will be taken advantage of.

[@richiehoyt8487]

So Norway is in the World's top 10 oil & gas producers, but are making petrol and diesel vehicles effectively illegal - isn't that a bit like those hard drug traffickers who never even see, let alone use, their stock in trade?!

[@Psychoolol]

how can i leave this shit whole i live in and go to norway

[@womensfitne]

Nice video 🎉🎉🎉

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

Sat 30 Nov . 2024 : Thank you for your presentation , I am interested in this topic .

[@hannecatton2179]

Anyone making money in Norway are leaving due to huge tax rates .

[@zjeee]

Yep that is socialism

[@gampie13]

He REALY should no have included fish farming, fish farming is some of the most toxic food produced in the world, due to how regulations allow "pulp" and extrapolated products, to not need detailed information of where or what it is from. And the fish farms are destroying everything around it, including free natural fish, devastating the natural climate of the Sealife, and spreading fast. It's one of Norway's worst corruption ever, and no one can manage to stop it getting worse. And scientist or any health/biology related person who even goes close to it, either get completely cast out of all science, or are on the payroll...

[@eb-guy9478]

Are you Norwegian? And have you done reserch? I work in a fish farm and I can tell you that fish farming isn't as bad as you claim. Fish farming companies in Norway are see threw, so if you do reserch you can find out about alot of things. You are right about the risks of destroying alot like the area around fish farms, and the free natural fish claim. But thats where really strict rules come into play. For exemple when 1 fish escapes we have to start as fast as possible to try to catch it. And contact fishermen in the area. And may have to pay a penalty. And your last claim is wrong. Note that I'm explaining how it is in Norway.

[@gampie13]

@@eb-guy9478 I am from Norway, And the highest reason fish farming is so toxic, comes down to the feed, and the after effect it has on both fish and area. The major problem is what fish feed contains/is made of, namely pulp. The main reason pulp is such a problem, has to do with where the pulp is sourced, which is mostly the Baltic sea, which is contaminated to all hell. Pulp by regulation is not needed to be listed where fish used in the pulp is sourced. So most of all pulp, comes from areas like the Baltic. Now couple this, with the fish storing all that toxicity in their fat layer, and that fat layer is a majority of pulp, and you now come to why fish-farms are making some of the most toxic food on the planet. That's not even going in to bacteria and sickness, and the counter problem that comes with the ways to counter them. escaped farm fish and the tack-on effects of that, is secondary to the feed and medicine used to keep fish farms going

[@eb-guy9478]

Okay e tar då på Norsk. Ka e pulp? Og ka pelletsn e laga av e mye naturlie ingrediensa. Og då e en mulihet å ha medisina åg vaksina i pelletsn. Men det finnes andre alternativa som vaksinering gjennom vanne di svøm i. Dette skjer i et skip så vaksina ikke e i løse have. Men klart at pelletsn ikke ska andre plassa enn te fesken. Åverforing e et problem. Pelletsn e bra førr laksn men ikke førr feks. seien under som får tak i det. E veit ikke korr du får tak i iførmasjonen. Men e ha gådd 2 år me skole åg jobba me dette. Vært å sett dær di produser pellets. Bi snakka om både ulæmpa og fordela. Då at pelletsn e toxic har alldri blidd sagt før. Di ha vist åss alle ingrediænsan og grafa om ka som går i pelletsn. E kan låv de at oppdrettsnæringa har høyast interesse i å ivareta miljøet. Alt e ikke perfekt. Men utvikles te dt beire heile tia.

[@michaeljames5936]

Billionaires are 'fleeing' a One Point One Percent wealth tax. How disgustingly greedy and selfish can you possibly be. They should be stripped off all their Norwegian holdings, and frankly, above most countries, Norway can take this hit. It's not like the UK, which makes its wealth laundering the funds from corruption and drug dealing, or my own country Ireland (surprised we weren't in your 'top ten happiest', we're usually top three.) which acts as a tax haven. If us, or the Brits talk-Turkey on tax, all those numbers, on computers, representing 'wealth' can just be transferred abroad, but Norway's assets are tangible, physical 'things' and 'stuff'. You can't transfer a fjord, or hydroelectric dam 'off-shore'. If they've been foolish enough, to allow those billionaires to have paper saying they 'own' these things, then let 'em take the paper (as a memento), but the govt. takes the dam. Even somewhere like Germany, all those factories can be moved abroad.

[@Gabby-bot]

Anything to say about the Norwegian paper industry? Began in 1890's, Norway exported paper products to Holland. -Gabriel of Norway.

[@johnsmith-de3tl]

norway does well in spite of the government and not due to it. the rules and laws put in place keeps them at bay but the government is extremely bloated by programs and departments with little to no value made possible due to typical norwegian corruption called "venne tjeneste" or a friends favour. other then that, i have never....never heard anyone feel guilty about being norwigian.

[@TheRewindKing]

WOW Norway does well for themselves and others. Well narrated!

[@gameducks2690]

living expenses and taxes is also highest in the world

[@okklidokkli]

Not really.

[@James-t6o6e]

How can Norways income be higher than their debt while being in debt to $750B?

[@anomaly2990]

Thanks Kermit 🐸

[@michaelsmith9590]

What percentage of EV motor vehicles in Norway hold a battery type that includes cobalt?

[@paulwolter8304]

Wonder why the crime is so low there?

[@steveschmidt5156]

13% of wizards commit 67% of the crimes.

[@thatjeff7550]

They toss offenders outside for a winter day.

[@jeschinstad]

It's very easy. We know that people are not born evil, so if people commit crimes, it's because something went wrong in their lives and society didn't pick up on it before it was too late. Then it becomes our responsibility to help cure their criminality. If you treat people with respect, then they will respect you back. It's not magic. Why would you want to become a criminal when you can just ask your people for help instead?

[@Asim-w5d5u]

@@jeschinstad Can't treat the cultures who celebrate doing crime and claim it to be their moral right given their oppression olympics past

[@zjeee]

@@jeschinstad Does not work like that, my country, Sweden have the same philosophy now we are the gun murder capital of Europe. Only thing that has reduced the crime rate is harsher punishments - the opposite of what you are suggesting.

[@mrcraftiest]

Where is that creature at the beginning of the video?

[@boyzinthewood1]

Behind you

[@Gnug215]

Ok, I have listened and re-listened a bunch of times, but I can't for the life of me interpret what the hell the name of that Danish newspaper you mention at 18:39 is supposed to be. Dagens... what? Nayringsleeve?

[@reddog-ex4dx]

Hey, if Norway's residents want to give some money away, I'll take some!

[@zjeee]

Their government is rich, not the actual residents.

[@bluzamps23]

Battery Pollution

[@jimknowles5483]

Americans need to wake up…… think long term…!!! Do similar projects…! Shine the bright lights,,,!!

[@antontsau]

if you look on this "richiest countries list" you notice there absolutely pauper barearse Ireland. Its not a wealth, its just bookkeepers trick, overseas money counter against local GDP in tax havens. Norway is not so poor, anyway their GDP is NOT produced by (small) population but North Sea oil and abundant hydro energy. All other local activity there (fish, forest, manufacturing...) is just redistributing and consuming of value, not creating it. 10% of population working in oil industry feeds everybody. If it was 1% with remaining 99% ballast - it would be pauper Russia with $300 as Good Income.

[@100gang-post99]

His name is Fred Williams 😢

[@neilmcnasty]

Rich??? That has to be before tax deductions... Look at our taxes dude! THAT IS NOT RICH! Only our Government is rich (and totally delusional) You would be insane to start a business here!!!

[@shinthikeloop823]

How in the world is Israel on that happyness list

[@Mr.A.J.1]

electric planes my ass, electric cars can only make it 350 miles tops

[@hansericsson7058]

Norway have also foun a very large deposit of cobalt and fosfate

[@Karl-Benny]

Those wealthy should loose their Citizenship and right to earn money in Norway their Homeland where they Prospered

[@zjeee]

Implement that policy and the country will fall within 2 months. Who is going to invest in new businesses and pay salaries when all wealthy people are gone?

[@Tpbraut]

It really depends on how much Norway has to spend on Ukraine! :)

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

Norway is the real communist country and the country that Carl Marx envisioned not Soviet union, China, North Korea, Cuba etc etc where they only used the term Communism etc because it sounds great for a normal citizen back then to attract supporters but in reality they are running a modern Monarchy, Autocracy etc

[@okklidokkli]

Norway is a capitalist country with private ownership. It is ranked higher than UK and USA in economic freedom, and often scores better in ease of doing business.

[@pawzom2564]

Wealth tax on the rich are much worse than you described here. From what I understand the rich get taxed so much and from so many different sources that in many cases rather than earning money they end up losing money and the loss of the rich moving away will have a bigger impact than just affecting what is gained from taxing them but also from losses in jobs they generate.

[@lillia5333]

The billionaire Olaf Thon does not agree. He pays his tax with pleasure... or he did, before he died 101 years old. Never complained. Never planned to move.

[@zjeee]

yep, that's what happens. I used to live and work in my home country of Sweden, there literally was no point for us to work overtime because we got put in a higher tax bracket and would not really see any financial benefit from working extra. I always told my foreign friends, if you are looking to work hard and earn money then don't go to Scandinavia.

[@klouisi]

So it's true, coffee makes you smarter. I guess I need to start drinking it now. Maybe then I'll be smarter then my wife??? Nope, never mind, she won't let that happen, ever!!!

[@gameducks2690]

saying norway isnt suited for growing crops is horseshit. there is great places for farming in norway. hardanger for example is known for some of the best apples in the world

[@okklidokkli]

You can not feed Norways population on apples from Hardanger. Only 3% of Norway is farmed land and we are totally depended on import.

[@clauswichmann1490]

You do great contend - Thanks 🔥 💙💙💙🌈🌈🌈💙💙💙

[@teklife]

no one can fuck with norway, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@brettwalkom948]

Wait so they simultaneously sell so much oil and yet dont want to import cars using petrol or diesel.. how does that overall help the environment

[@jeschinstad]

How does cutting emissions help the environment? What are you asking? Would you stop eating dinner if Norway decided to cut off supply? It is the consumption that is the problem and that problem cannot be solved by triggering massive wars.

[@brettwalkom948]

@jeschinstad I'm pointing out their hypocrisy making themselves rich selling oil but refusing to use it themselves..

[@homeistheearth]

Yes its a massive hypocrazy that they use to push their glory polishing while on the other hand sell the very thing they claim to not want. ​@@brettwalkom948

[@brettwalkom948]

@@homeistheearth just proves they don't really give a crap about the environment just getting rich

[@lillia5333]

The oil is here. It prevents the use of coal. If Norway stopped the oil business, Europe will use coal and buy oil from Russia. With Trump running things in USA they will drill for oil in national parks and other places thats been unavailable until now. More fossils more pollution. The tiny drops Norway are selling wont change a thing.

[@Zyxon88]

Too bad I just bought a diesel car in Norway 😂, also I live here for the last 10 years. I don't think everything you said is correct. You should probably research it a bit more.

[@tmyrdal]

Goverment scroes the Norwegian Citizen. Stary to intervju the Norwegian Citizen that is not ritches, people loses house and home that have been in family in generasjon. The Citisens get sctues every year and its sucks now.

[@poladelarosa8399]

WATOP: Sure wish you would lose the ticky-tacky background loops. It's like a dentist's drill for the ears. Maybe hiring an adult sound producer would help.

[@bertloreto9507]

To all the Norwegians that are leaving it or feeling robbed , or always complaining about how bad they have it , well…they should move to Russia see how good that is over there. This is a problem with most well off societies in developed democracies: apathy and belief the other side is greener . cherish and protect what you have : The Russians are coming if you go soft !!

[@eviljedi1496]

WTF, where did you get that graph from (1:40) ? Germany is NOT in the surplus for the last 30 years or more ;)

[@gunzorzz]

the goverment is rich in norway today. The people not so much. Sure we prob have a high % of rich people But we dont take care of elderly, there is STILL NO Dental coverage in our socalled free healthcare. Housing is so expensive here now that if 2 people working fulltime sins u where 18 (most well payed jobs u need a university education so mid twenties school time) U MIGHT... MIGHT be able to afford a teeny tiny apartment or a run down house from the 60's 1-2hours(by car in summer) from your jobplace. We tax so harshly that a lot of industry and rich people actually move out of the country bringing down govermental income and hurting pretty much everyone everywhere. But hey... Could be worse off. Just saying that shit is NOT going in the right direction like it used to.

[@Iris_and_or_George]

9:15 blue mussels? Don't you mean blue waffle? 😅 I'm sorry😇

[@rojaeblake6099]

Does Norway 🇳🇴 have storm any time in the year like adder countries

[@markpashia7067]

Sounds like they are making a few mistakes. Rather than shame the folks for using foreign nannies, just regulate the wages upwards to not allow wage slavery. They can have their nannies, but they have to pay and treat fairly. With that though they would have to heavily police those with enforcement mechanisms. Still that is better than stopping it all together. More or less the same with wealth flight from the country. Create structures that would allow people to travel out if they wish, but if they do chose that the money does not go with them. Same thing could be done to require the wealthy to invest heavily in native industries rather than overseas by tax codes. Extremely high taxes were never to raise income, they were the stick part of "carrot and stick" incentives to good social responsibility. Encourage the wealthy to be less greedy and more socially responsible. No matter the crazy fiction that the wealthy got there by hard work, nearly all of them TOOK from the nation in one way or another. No man is an island and society built the infrastructure that allowed the wealthy to thrive. Auto makers would never have sold very many cars if society had not built better roads to make them useful. Learn about stakeholder capitalism vs shareholder capitalism and you find that externalities are nearly always a major part of the story both good (to help grow) or bad (like pollution). Cutting out the society and making it a rival is never a good thing. Society and business should always be partners. Finding the balance of power is the hard part at all times. Corruption is a constant battle in any social structure as we see today.

[@ahkkariq7406]

You can still hire nannies. You just can't hire them under the au pair scheme.

[@zjeee]

nah you should not stop people from taking THEIR money with them. They made that money, it's none of the government's business what they do with it. You know what country has that policy? China. Yeah you really want to live in a communist country then you can go there. The high taxes on the wealthy is just an illusion, the richest of the country will find the loop holes the politicians put in place and put their money in tax havens while the Middle class are the ones stuck with picking up the bill. They are not poor but they are not rich enough to hire all those lawyers and financial advisers to help them escape the tax like the wealthy. The infrastructure built was funded by those very same companies being taxed and the people that were provided jobs taxed, there is a reason why most infrastructure usually is concentrated around areas such as ports and industries. Because they make tax revenue for the state. The state needs them to thrive, they don't really need the state if they did not pay tax they could use that money to build their own roads. I am Swedis,h our richest person used to be the founder of IKEA, guess where he was living? Switzerland. Why? Well lower taxes. Like I said it is an illusion that the richest pay high taxes.

[@okklidokkli]

They are not nannies, that's the problem.

[@Thewaitedog]

Your videos are good but your headlines are very bad

[@Johanneson72]

What’s with the hat, Bub?

[@simplemechanics246]

Norway fish is so polluted, even the Asia most polluted river fish is not so toxic. Never ever eat Norway salmon or other fish

[@ahkkariq7406]

There is a big difference between farmed fish and wild fish. Norway has some of the cleanest sea areas, and the wild fish fortunately have enough sense to stay away from the fjords where fish farms destroy the environment. A large proportion of Norwegian export fish is wild fish.

[@mr.g5593]

Det er ikke rett av dem å flytte ut sånn det er her di har starte å tjene pengene sine så det burde ikke vært noe problem for dem å betale tilbake til samfunnet som resten gjør 🤬

[@kipper2k]

AL-UM-IN - e - UM not ALOOOMINUM :)

[@petermacfarlane4388]

You're busted! I saw one of your ads.

[@Andrew-df1dr]

Al-you-min-e-um

[@OpieFromFlorida]

Imagine being in one of those planes and the battery dies

[@okklidokkli]

How is that worse than other engines dying?

[@francoisriberdy3478]

No one talk about HydroQuebec, the hydro power house

[@_andrewvia]

Shelter your voice. It allows you to make these videos.

[@canaldecasta]

Is it open borders?

[@NNnnNnnn-n8g]

We're full.

[@jeschinstad]

Yes. We're members of both The Nordic Council, which gives open borders to Sweden and Finland and an EEA, which means we're in the Schengen border.

[@ahkkariq7406]

No.

[@JosephRios-p1c]

does Norway have any immigration issues like in the us.

[@jayjayn007]

Of course they do.

[@Tpbraut]

What kind of dumb question is that? Name one country without any immigration issues.

[@Gabor-y3h]

@@Tpbraut Saud Arabia

[@alexanderbalsvik592]

@@Gabor-y3h well people tend to immigrate to western nations.

[@alexanderbalsvik592]

its like this in every single western country, it is very obvious western leaders have some sort of agenda even though I struggle finding out what it is.

[@graemeverryt618]

Is it only me today thinking , so much reaching...skip

[@LuniZZs]

reason norway is rich is because we Denmark was stupid and sold the some spot in the ocean were there lots and lots of oil. so thats why.

[@Hammerhook12]

Sold? Denmark basically gave the Ekofisk field to Norway.

[@lassebasseish]

That's not THE reason. It's one of the reasons. And don't pretend you deserve anything else after literally leeching all of Norway's wealth for 500 years during the union. Call it karma if you will.

[@Tpbraut]

Did you even watch this video? Norway would be rich without oil!

[@tor6372]

No, the median line principle was in the Geneva Convention (1958) and Ekofisk field was in Norwegian sector. Denmark lost Ekofisk in 1814 by your own stupidity, declaring UK war and siding with Napoleon. That gave famine in Norway and we was done with the awful incompetence of Danish leaders for good.

[@rogerolsen8012]

return greenland and the faroe islands to norway