Many people I know who did engineering with me in India were stuck waiting for a 'dream job' and have gone no where with their lives. People like us knew we had no special skills in engineering to wait for a magical moment of a 'dream job' to arrive and took whatever came our way. Incrementally we worked towards improving ourselves and now have near dream jobs.
The more special you think you are, lesser the options you will have. Because you would got used to thinking of many jobs as work beneath you.
Frankly, we have thousands of other problems, highlighted by basic health care, that we should probably prioritize first.
The situation in the US is a political choice, not a consequence of some economic law.
This isn't a word and Norway isn't socialist.
Upthread is strong with hyperbole from an American perspective, and that "neo-" is just to distinguish having strong governmental social programs/services/safety nets (often caricatured as "socialism" from both the right and the left) from old-school destructive actual Socialism.
Clearly the two "well known" publications (the most preeminent Marxist journals) listed in that wikipedia article and the fact that the wikipedia article's definition of neo socialism has absolutely nothing to do with Norways economic model point to the fact that the parent comment definitely didn't make up that word out of thin air.
Norway is not socialist, neosocialist, or whatever dumb made up "socialism" you people try to come up with.
Also something having a wiki page on any website and being used in a couple of journals does not make something a term/word. It only indicates that someone wants it to be a term/word.
"See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that ... you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!"
It's not the actual learning itself that's expensive; it's the credentials.
Unfortunately, the world isn't making new land. It's a reality of life that we live in a world of scarcity.
The Internet era effectively invalidates structured schooling education for the vast majority of people who do not require the rigored environment such institutions impart. For most people, reading books, watching lectures, and discussing with fellow students of the discipline (or even experts) in social media is more than sufficient to acquire a knowledge of desirable fields of study.
The only difference is, you don't get a piece of paper after doing it for four years many industries mandate you have to try to use that knowledge professionally. But if you are only in it for fulfillment, you can get that right now, without any state institution subsidizing your living and accommodations to acquire it.
Is there a country in the world where this isn't possible now?
Maybe it's just having the sheepskin that matters most.