Norway has an actual tax schema for corporations centered around VAT. So companies actually do pay taxes. Salaries/wages are also generally high. They are investing massively into tech to diversify from fossil fuels.
Coincidentally they also discovered massive phosphate deposits
Still, things are changing and there’s plenty of silicon valley types and Elon fanboys. The rightward shift of the last 20yr has also hit to some degree. But there is still a strong left which is helping to weather that.
All in all a better condition than in the US even though their prosperity is directly tied to US oil industry.
Venicon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yup they reinvested a lot of the oil money back into their country and population whereas we in the UK (Scotland) had it squandered.