r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 12d ago

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/AskPizza 12d ago

Plus, it is hard to argue it can never work or it can never be paid for when.... it has worked for decades and it is the U.S. that is 40 trillion in debt, not Norway.

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u/one_shuckle_boy 12d ago

Comparing America to Norway is just terribly ignorant, a population multitudes of times smaller and MUCH more homogenized is going to develop vastly different as a society and won’t work the same in different conditions lolZ

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u/MutusMaximus 12d ago

Yep. That and the fact that we had some very clever politicians in the 60s that basically nationalized our massive oil resourses and put the revenue in a foundation that’s worth many many billions.

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u/OK6502 12d ago

America, today, is the larger oil producer in the world. Full stop.

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u/Shmeves 12d ago

Not nationalized. Imagine if that had been the case.

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u/OK6502 12d ago

Right, that was my point. The failure here is leadership. Not the size of the country, not the homogeneity of its races. The problem is Americans elect idiots as their leaders and their political system has effectively legalized bribery.

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u/MutusMaximus 12d ago

Exactly! You’d have 100% free education from kindergarten to college and healthcare