Norse
That is fact. Not an opinion.
Also, macroeconomics, public health, health care economics, etc compare countries all the time. Fact. The argument "It doesn't compare due to size" is something that crops up on the internet with people trotting it out as a reason for why their policies/countries/footballteams cannot possibly be expected to perform. There is never any reasoning for why size has this effect of excusing select objects from comparing to others of the same class. Nor any musings on whether the scaling can be compensated for. It is an internet thing, this cry of "SIZE! Can't be compared."
Menawhile, if yoy check out some serious research papers of a nmber of disciplines, you'll see they don't hesitiate to compare countries of widly differing sizes.
And it is not reasonable to assume that his countrymen can't be bothered when they are the most prolific in the world.
If there is a lesson to be had from Scandianvia it is that cpaitalist is a way of earning money, and socialist is a way of spending it.
Both dials can be turned up at the same time.
No-ones ever pointed out a mechanism which would make it impossible to compare countries of varying sizes to each other. And normally, the advantage accrues to the larger one, with the bigger internal market.
In short, everything else being equal, you would expect the US to hasve more startups per cpaita, just based on the size advantage alone.
Along with the fact that Norway saves all its oil in a fund for a rainy day, I don't think oil figures that much.
And "it is more expensive o fail"? With no risk of medical bankrupcy, guaranteed health care, free university for the kids, a generous safety net, pensions etc...how can it possibly be more disastrous?
There is more happiness in being well-off in a rich country, than being rich in a poor or troubled one.
Especially if you have a family.
People don't measure themselves against the superrich of other countries anyway. A doctor in Norway has a high-status job and among the best wages in the country. Changing from being in the top in a rich country to being somewhat further from the top in a more trobled one is not a winning proposition. Even if it does mean more number in the bank.
Also, it is undeniable that there are more freedom under the Norwegian system than the US one. Health care, vacation time, education, personal development....I cannot imagine what freedoms the US could measure up in.
6. You can stop working, and live on the mimimum amount you get off other peoples taxes.
7. You can move to a country with lower taxes.
If all these freedoms seem to much work to you, the only person enslaving you is you.
Much like the case is with Sweden, Denmark, Finland...who run the same system without oil, and gets similar results.
If money motivates you, become a day trader, hedge fund manager, bank executive. Work with money. At the kind of shear stress you get at these levels, you need the edge that comes from doing something you want. Just trudging in day after day for the money just won't cut it.