• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    Can Norway start handing out some of those resource W’s to the rest of Europe please? They’re playing civilisation on easy mode here

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      Norway and the US are using hacks. Whenever there’s a shortage of something, a farmer in Bumfucksville, Iowa or fisherman in Bømføkstad, Norway finds some immense reserve of it.

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          It looks like madness because it’s something that’s almost completely absent from politics around the world: thinking past the next election!

          Ok, the government has this oil money what should we do with it? Give everyone tax cuts? Build giant vanity projects? Throw a year-long nation-wide party with a kilo of cocaine for every household?

          Nope, let’s invest it into a government owned diverse market fund so the social security of our citizens is sound for generations to come.

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          And it pays for public pensions. I see that as an absolute win. If there’s going to be exploitation of the working class, at least let it be to care for old bums.

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      Ye no. We lived here for 12000 years mostly in poverty and conflict.

      Only the last 60 years have been good. And people want us to get fucked for it.

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      The rare resources were not uncovered on the map before the technologies to use them were researched