Re:Norweigan oil fund
by kyruzic on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:29PM
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The US and Canada (Alberta) both were as well. Yet both have massive debt instead of huge amounts of money.
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Re:Norweigan oil fund
by endorphone on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:38PM
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In the US, and to a lesser extent Canada, the idea of the state benefiting too much is seen as lefty socialism (Canada briefly flirted with economic nationalism with the creation of Petro-Canada, but this was vehemently opposed by US energy companies). So we have a classic situation where the profits are privatized to the very few, and the costs are socialized (climate change, abandoned wells, pollution, etc).