Cheerful Charlie
Contributor
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich
....
Young people across the western world are on track to become the first generation to grow up poorer than their parents. So how are millennials in just one country bucking this trend?
It’s old news that university debts and rocketing housing costs are common concerns for people born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, living in the US, the UK and many other countries. Multiple studies suggest this group will be the first in recorded history to end up poorer than those which came before.
In Europe’s northernmost country, things are decidedly different.
...
Well, if this is socialism, we need more of it. A lot of the Faux monkey's like to mention socialism - Venezuela, and the rejoinder should be socialism, Norway. Maybe Venezuela can hire a bunch of Norwegian economists to help them straighten out the mess Venezuela is in.
It is nice to see somewhere on planet Earth somebody is managing to figure all this out.
....
Young people across the western world are on track to become the first generation to grow up poorer than their parents. So how are millennials in just one country bucking this trend?
It’s old news that university debts and rocketing housing costs are common concerns for people born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, living in the US, the UK and many other countries. Multiple studies suggest this group will be the first in recorded history to end up poorer than those which came before.
People in their early thirties in Norway have an average annual disposable household income of around 460,000 kroner - around $56,200
But perhaps this doesn’t have to be a foregone conclusion.
In Europe’s northernmost country, things are decidedly different.
...
Well, if this is socialism, we need more of it. A lot of the Faux monkey's like to mention socialism - Venezuela, and the rejoinder should be socialism, Norway. Maybe Venezuela can hire a bunch of Norwegian economists to help them straighten out the mess Venezuela is in.
It is nice to see somewhere on planet Earth somebody is managing to figure all this out.