• @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    See facts like this make me wonder if a Norway style sovereign wealth fund could be developed to close the gaps in people’s quality of life and what they’ve put into working.

    It’s not like the US is short on natural resource wealth to invest as the principle, and put together with a restructured tax regime it could significantly reduce the net burden for most americans, and especially the most misfortuned americans.

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      18 months ago

      The US is a net importer, though. It wouldn’t make sense.

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          18 months ago

          Being a net importer, means the US consumes more than it produces. It vaguely makes sense because it is still a growing county.

          Norway’s oil fund protects the domestic economy from the negative consequences of being an oil exporting nation. Less kindly, you could call it currency manipulation. The US would be ill-advised to do like-wise, given its import surplus.