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Re:An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by ptaipale on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:04AM (#19595259)
Norway is not socialist in the "means of production" sense. The means of production, be it machinery or brains, are privately owned. The government owns assets that are exploited in this production - primarily, the oil fields - but not means of production.
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Re:An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by djrobstep on Sunday April 07, 2019 @03:18AM (#19595324)
You're being very incoherent.

> The means of production, be it machinery or brains, are privately owned.

They are not. The government literally owns the bulk of the wealth. Not only in the oil sector but in a wide variety of industries, both directly and through the fund.

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Re:An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by Gravityloss on Sunday April 07, 2019 @05:52AM (#19595842)
You are correct in the sense that the government owns 67% of Equinor (formerly Statoil and Norsk Hydro): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinor And controls the oil fund.
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Re:An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009) by ptaipale on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:24AM (#19622569)
"Wealth" the government owns is often just "wealth" or "resources" rather than "means of production".
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