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That may also be due to the egalitarian nature of Norway, the gap between the lowest and highest paid jobs are not that large. If you remove the statistical anomalies. So any job will allow you to live a similar life as your neighbors whom may have a more "perceived" glamorous job. There really isn't much of a working class nor upper class, just variations of a huge middle class.

Though I am not sure I share you opinion on who does the cleaning though. Maybe in a more rural hotel that is the case but whenever I go back to the Oslo especially more recently nearly all the "low rung" jobs are done by recent immigrants.

I noticed hotels seemed to be mostly eastern Europeans, offices a mix of Somali, Vietnamese etc and in restaurants mostly Swedes. There certainly was often discussions in the media of Norwegian youth being too spoilt for those jobs and the country depended on over qualified immigrants to fill these necessary roles. This may also be the case in many other countries.