[3dbrows]

Sitting atop the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, accumulated over decades of judicious management of national oil wealth, perhaps insulates Norway from realities that apply elsewhere.

[Teever]

What does standard of living look like in Norway? What about wealth inequality?

[reducesuffering]

Now do Sweden

[2000UltraDeluxe]

As much as the rest of the Nordics hate to admit it, Norway's economy is far more stable than those of their neighbours, including the Swedish one.

[3dbrows]

I’m no expert, but I wonder what the long-term socioeconomic effects are of Sweden not having been involved in major wars or colonial empires for hundreds of years.