'Rich&Equal' - Norwegian TV show 'This Is Norway' s01e04 w/English subtitles

[Yujiroh]

Learning Norwegian while learning about Norway, win win.

[thebaws]

This guy actually made a joke about killing the prime minister on national television. What a madlad.

[onasmilgeviciute]

Det hadde vært fantastisk hvis nesten episoden vært også tilgjengelig med engelsk subtitel. Jeg tenker om mange folk utenfor Norge med hvem jeg ønsker å dele denne. Tusen takk for showet, jeg er innvandrer og lærer veldig mye av det!

[maxsalman]

Having been to Norway twice, I always wondered how the economic system allowed for the rich and equal system to thrive. This perfectly explains it! Thank you for making this video!! Keep me in your Prayers as I am applying to work in Norway!

[potaterjim]

I love how apparently the US (and Canada for that matter) has basically decided that while we want grocery store clerks to exist, we don't think they deserve to have nice things like vacations.

[Lobos]

12:42 *Note that NHO is a EMPLOYER Union.*
The other two are worker unions and its a combination between them negotiating, with the government and their overall regulation and laws in the background. The government however usually does not intervene in the negotiation.

[abhishektodmal]

Denne er fantastisk! Jeg lærer Norsk og denne hjelpe meg. Hei alle Norsk menn og kvinnene!

[jcl]

This series is great learning for non-Norwegians. You really should have the whole series here with English subtitles.

[ambassadorgaming]

I love my country so much
The ads here are also insane, but I’m so used to them now, that when people point it out, I think to myself «Oh yeah, that is kinda weird how they made a BDSM joke in an ad for some smash chocolate»

[nicolasnod]

This is amazing, thank you for posting it and the subtitles.
I had an idea how the northern system worked but I wasn't aware of the details of how it merged itself with capitalism.
It is clear that in order to strive as a nation that doesn't want to be fully capitalist, there must be some concessions, i.e. the taking into account the import-export at the moment of paying sallaries.
I wish more countries would do this, currently here (Argentina) we're going through an economic crisis that can't seem to be put out, but it's basically all because of corruption in politics.

I'm as broke as it gets and you can't get a decent job if your life depended on it.
The average paying job is around the equivalent of $350 dollars a month and the cost of living is above $600.

We do have free health care and education and if your entire direct family is poor you get some government help, but it's all band-aids on a gushing wound.


But it's nice to see some parts of the world aiming in the right direction.

[imaysin]

Absolutely loved it.what a great system.
It's great to see that unions actually take welfare of everyone as the end goal.
This shows the nature and values of the people.
Love from India.

Edit: but wouldn't cost of living and expenses also factor in the equation.

[nelsonmandela]

Actually very close to my macroeconomics lecture manly attributing it to technological growth combined with a stable labour share income due to strong unions.

[jodieburnside]

I came to this to have something to improve my Norwegian listening skills (I'm learning the language). This was both great practice and incredibly interesting!

[sumzer_]

Just pointing it out, BNP per innebygger is supposed to be GDP per capita. The subtitles are a bit wrong

[thomasberkvik]

Dette er en fantastisk video. Meget opplysende. Bra jobbet, dette kommer jeg til å følge med på :)

[ZebNiko]

When talking about differences of pay between two places, you need to also include cost of living and taxes. The governmental services available is also important to consider when they cost out of pocket in one area, but not in another.

[StigDesign]

Kjempe bra laget spesielt episode 2 XD :D dette her burde ha hvert i samfunnsfaget på skolen :D

[MikaelForsell]

For me it was surprising find, tho logical when thinking, those negative aspects of Norways economy. For example 'service innovations are low. The public sector is very large, while the private sector is underdeveloped. The oligopolistic structure of the market, the lack of competition, is part of the reason for Norway's high prices'.

I am finnish myself. I have nothing but respect towards Norway and its people. I feel that we are family.
This video was enlightening in a way that i learn that oil is not the only reason to Norway's success. Thats why I am proud of them. Overall, all nordic countries can be proud about development we achieved in last 200 years. My own country has the lowest gdp of five nordic nation. But we are not so far away from the others/nordic medium. But we were the most poor of the all other nordic areas. We were poor longer than others. But i feel that we start to come closer to "nordic standard", where Norway is a finest example.
Lets not forget as an nordic citizens, that we can enjoy and learn from this era. We were backwaters of europe and undeveloped less than 200 yrs ago. We have to understand that nothing is granted, or permanent in this sense.
Humans are only one race, all over the globe, nobodys better than other. That i know is fact, based to my own life. Only different times, different places.
I stop writing now as i start to feel sleepy at last...zzz..
Sorry. ❤ from Fin

I intentionally started "offensive" sides of economy in Norway. Yeah, i have learned it from watching US political theatre. Try to be loud and peg a fight, so u can be seen. Blame Trump about this😅...i hate that man...

[marshmelows]

10:00 So Norway is rich because of Norway itself, i.e., their people 👏

[sallieannasteiner]

Takk for denne interessante episoden. Dette har eg opplevd som norsk-amerikansk arbeider i begge landa. The one big thing I think is missed here is that Norway is also a relatively privileged country in that it is not (any longer) bothered by colonial powers. When less privileged countries try to empower workers, take control of their economies, and improve quality of life, colonial creditors come knocking with sanctions and austerity and military force. Norway has been allowed to empower its society largely unimpeded by colonialism in the contemporary era. The prosperity of everyday Norwegians also came after its independence from Denmark and Sweden and then the end of occupation by Germany. I remember hiking Kongevegen and seeing historical signs about how Norwegian peasant men living along the road were required to basically stop what they were doing when a noble wanted to cross and to ferry them over the mountain. Not a lot a person can do to better their situation when they live in subservience. One could say that this is in some ways what is happening to working class people in the US... The origins of this “service culture” and of tipping for example have been traced to slavery.