[Mizza]

It's better than the poke in the eye, that's for sure, I just don't think it's optimal and I'm tired of the way this story gets trotted out every now and then. I think there's a middle ground between solid gold rocket cars and rainy-day austerity. Norway is quite under developed in many ways, many services you'd think would be better just aren't, once the oil gets switched off they don't have much modern industry as an alternative, which wouldn't be the problem if they spent some of the money to diversify.

[kwhitefoot]

> many services you'd think would be better just aren't

Perhaps you could enlighten us about which services are lacking and how they are so much better in those countries that just spent the North Sea oil revenue internally?

[Mizza]

Today, I'd pick Posten. It seems like you're a proud nationalist and I don't want to start a fight.

[ubercore]

Posten is a mixed bag. Ease of access at places like grocery stores, and general service is great. But delivery can often be weirdly delayed. Sometimes we get notice of bills _after_ they're due. But overall, I prefer it to the US postal service I'm used to, so it doesn't feel like a slam dunk example to me.

Spend some of that money on training and paying more GPs, and you'd have my interest...

[Mizza]

Maybe I'm just really unlucky, and I didn't really want to get into that guy about wait times at hospitals or whatever, but I find Posten to be just _spectacularly_ and often hilariously terrible.

[soco]

Fair point, but why would you think that having a workable post service is a matter of money? Maybe they're simply incompetent and/or never bothered to fix it...

[ubercore]

PostNord is about a million times worse for me.

[ceejayoz]

Oil's far more likely to taper off. A trillion dollars in the bank will cushion that transition quite well.