Huge oil and gas reserves also help out.
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Most of the Nordic countries do not have those. Norway has a lot, Denmark has a little, the others have nothing significant
checks out a bit. when they lost cheap russian energy, they took a hit to their industry.
It's taxation.
my country taxes the shit out of us and we are still poor.
Taxation + efficiency + [less open]corruption
i don't think so, can you source that claim? those are just meaningless words diverting from the fact europeans bullied us into operating our services for their profit instead. also cheap extractivism from your colonies.
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- superior white skin and blue eyes and blonde hair too?
definitely at least some eurocentrism
Almost, it's imperialism. The Nordic model depends on the global system of imperialism to both have safety nets and huge profits for capitalists.
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