Roughly yes. How are we still working 40hrs/week just to put a roof over our head and feed our families when we are equipped with technologies that have exponentially increased the productive output of each individual?

The answer is that land has gotten more expensive, so everything on it has gotten more expensive. The solution is not to avoid wage increases, as this “FUD” accusation assumes, but to raise wages and tax the daylights out of landowners (like myself) so society can recoup the benefits of its productivity!

> How are we still working 40hrs/week just to put a roof over our head and feed our families

Most tech workers earn far more than is necessary for just this. But we also want nice cars, nice vacations, going out to restaurants and buy nice toys. That's what keeps most of us working that much.

Yes the people in what’s likely the most lucrative industry in human history have it good. For now.

(just a nitpick, but we don't have a general minimum salary / minstelønn in Norway. Unions however, have managed to establish rules binding everyone in certain industries to some minimum)

To add to that: About half the Norwegian workforce is unionised (which is the lowest of the Nordic countries, but higher than all other non-Nordic countries in the OECD than Belgium), and something like 3/4 of all workers are covered by sectoral agreements (tariffavtaler), which is why there's not much demand for minimum wage laws.

That's just another guy trying to sabotage the working class, ignore the FUD about rents.

I don't believe that's a very good-faith interpretation; what makes you believe that, man?

Rents go up regardless of inflation. I've been renting for decades.