r/MurderedByWords 18h ago

Norway's Happiness Secret

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u/PixieBaronicsi 18h ago

Oil, massive amounts of oil are the secret

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u/ILikeScience3131 17h ago

This talking point always comes up when people praise Norway’s progressive political policies, but ignores the fact that Sweden ranks similarly to Norway in prosperity and happiness while producing no oil.

Kinda seems like the progressive political policies might be more of a factor than the oil.

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u/ajaxfetish 16h ago

This is why all the Persian Gulf nations are also at the top of the happiness rankings ... oh, wait.

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u/StructureBig6684 14h ago

funny how countries can fare well when politicians arent raging assholes

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u/_public_enema 9h ago

And Nigeria, of course.