keked again Australia. How does it feel?
>>52148915
>$1 trillion dollars saved
>$0.5 trillion dollars in external debt
yeah heaps logical mate, norway sure has a bright future
>>52148915
Your government is using that oil money to house refugees. You're the keked one.
>Norwegians paid 9 million US dollars to bury some seeds in the snow
just one example of smart investments by Norway
>>52149064
It seems you have a problem with basic math there Bruce..
>>52149290
I paid one dollah to bury my seeds into your mum
>>52149290
We also built a toilet out of pure gold just because
>Norway talking shit about keking
>Norway's '''''''''''''''''''''''''''future''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>>52149290
That sounds really cheap. It would be 30 times that price if it was in Brazil.
>>52149110
An Iraqi guy is the reason Norway has saved all that money
Even Norway's Arabs are superior
>>52149290
>$9 million
That's not a lot of money for a country. If that was coming out of people's taxes and not the oil money, it'd be less than $2 per person. And it's not a useless investment either, the seed bank has already been withdrawn from (by Syria).
>>52149716
What arabs? We are arabs more or less, hairy as fuck we are
ITT non countries fighting each other (rare stuff)
>>52149703
you telling me a country on the equator would have to pay more to bury seeds in the snow than a country in the arctic circle?
Aren't Norwegian gas prices around $10?
>>52148915
Uhh you guys still have pathetic, retard-tier immigration laws and are going to continue getting shitskins like you do now
Reminder that Oslo is 40% non-White
>>52149948
No that is just a myth, we tan easy during summers that's all
>muh cück money
Norway is at least as conservative as Australia is with immigration/refugees. Australia pays for the refugees and immigrants that they do have with tax money from their citizens, Norway pays for them with a fraction of their oil money. What is more cück, having everybody work to provide for refugees/immigrants, or having a few hundred people in the government oil company work to provide the money for them?
>>52150049
you're a fucking moron mate why the fuck would we pay for immigrants, they need a skilled job to come or stay here
>>52149948
Oslo is 8% muslim as of now.
>seed a torrent for some australian guy
>his d/l speed is 90kb/s
fucks sake, I'll keep this up all night because I feel sorry for the poor bastard
>>52148915
>tfw canada does the same thing as australia
>>52150196
But iirc the children of immigrants use welfare more often and stuff.
forget Norway
KENYA
>>52150232
>>52150232
i only get 20-30kb/s
>>52150390
Please tell me that's not true
>tfw almost none if our state governments would use our natural resources to fund their government because muh market efficiency, even for simple resource extraction
Seriously, with the way our government/tax structure works, that seems like one of the best ways for state governments to fund themselves. The federal government does income tax, so an additional state income tax isn't popular. Right now, state governments use sales taxes and property taxes to fund themselves (along with city governments), but that only increases the price of goods and services which is bad for the economy. If they just had a few state owned corporations in resource extraction, we could cut taxes & promote trade by using some of the money to build infrastructure. It's also be really beneficial for schools because they are funded by local property taxes, so poor neighborhoods have shit school and rich neighborhoods have good schools. If the money for public schools came from say the state's copper wealth, that wouldn't be a problem (and private schools still exist for the people concerned about the community having control over their schools). iirc the only thing similar to this we have right now is some states have their own liquor companies, and Alaska has their oil company which they use to benefit their citizens.
>>52149948
Says the Canadian
>>52149948
Norway has the strictest immigration laws in all of Europe mr. Leaf..
>>52149937
because corruption you idiot.
>>52150266
It's bretty hard to get Australian citizenship. You have to get sponsored by a company for years and years before they even let you take the test.
>>52149948
I know Yurop has become bad, but none of our major cities are 70% Chink like Hongcouver
>>52149290
i wonder if australia can have a doomsday in the desert actually
>>52149525
DEMOLISHED
>>52150828
>>52150209
>According to the most recent census 432,000 Oslo residents (70.4% of the population) were ethnically Norwegian,
>In 2013, 40% of Oslo's primary school pupils were registered as having a first language other than the Norwegian or Sami.
>>52148915
t. Sven Silverbeard
>>52151242
Gina Rinehart could easily look like a warlord from mad max t.b.h
>>52149110
we've only accepted something like 5k christian syrian kids and women
>>52151344
Why do immigrants always head to the capital or largest city? Serious question. Like Paris and London. Are they afraid of nature?
>>52151344
And how many of those immigrants are white and/or will assimilate?
>Implying it would make sense for Australia to keep ahold of all of its raw materials
>>52151386
but she'll fucking eat all the seeds in the bank
whats the point
whats the point of our """good economic"""
what can we even do with """"""it"""""""
>>52148915
fuck norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7OiSqvERg
>>52151515
>putting the sting ray in the kid's swimming pool
based chasers. top bants.
>>52151453
The big cities are where all the jobs are, and they are the most recognizable places so it's just what people see more when looking at places to move to. Also people that want to live in rural areas typically stay in their home country anyways.
>>52149525
oh shit
> >52150232
Alright guys, I know this may not be the best time for it, but we need to end this meme against Australians. Over the past year or so I've learned what it's like to be Australian, no, worse than an Australian. There are some places in American worse than Australia at internet
Please send help
>>52151600
But I thought shitskins didn't work
>>52151641
Shit fucked up the quote meant for >>52150232
>>52151641
Why did they give you ~23 Mb/s upload speed? What kind of sick company could possible come up with such evil plans?
>>52151515
>kun t S
>>52151641
That's fake, right? Surely you got it when an Aussie uploaded it on here.
>>52151733
I don't know why. Every company I've had gives me plenty of upload speed but no download speed
I think it's their form of humor
>>52149937
We paid half a bil to "reform" a stadium that took four years to complete.
That is almost the price tag of an average Chinese highrise.
>>52151781
Look at the server location, it's America
> <50 mi
>125 ping
Kill me
>>52151733
>>52151795
The companies who provide enterprise internet.
Are you sure you've asked for the consumer plan?
>>52151470
Not all of them, and it doesn't even have to be a state monopoly on those resources either. Just having a state owned corporation in the market with a mandate to give a share of the profits to the government would provide a lot of revenue for the government. Although there is a big risk of corruption, which is why this type of thing only works in countries like Norway with good governments.
>>52151795
That's weird my upload speed is always shitty (under a mb) and the download is like 10mb which is tolerable
>>52149525
You overspent
I've been to both and I can without a doubt assure you that if given a choice, I would not only pick Australia over Norway but I would also...
you know what I can't think of one plausible real situation in which I would pick Norway over Australia.
Maybe if aliens came and conquered our species and we were all sent to Norway to..
nah, I'd still rather die in Australia
>>52151841
I know, I just thought maybe it was a shoop or something.
>>52151877
Yeah state run businesses aren't very popular here. Our govt can't even into telecommunications, let alone mining.
>>52151957
Really? Why? What makes Aus better than Norway in your opinion?
>>52152100
Telstra was federally owned and now it is a fucking shambles and Qantas was govt owned, sold off then had to be bailed out. Privatisation hasn't worked out well for Australian companies outside of short term gain for selling them.
>>52152248
True. I'm probably thinking too short term. Although didn't the govt want to privatize Telstra because it was costing resources and not making enough money?
>>52151344
I thought that said Somali instead of Sami for a sec and genuinely believed it
>>52152312
It's not meant to make money it's a fuggen service. Now they have a complete monopoly of the market (they rent out their infrastructure to other telcos). If you haven't been fucked by Telstra at least once in your life consider yourself lucky.
It's like selling the airport to a damn bank. Full retard.
>>52150563
If it is, that's an Australian-Canadian.
I have 100Mbps down
>>52149833
Haha, I love it maggle!
God FUCKING damn, I want to be Norwegian so bad.
pls take me from this shithole, I will learn your language and I have a degree
>Howard ran structural deficits during the mining boom and still managed actual surpluses because the mining boom was like setting running a government to the very easy setting
>Australia praises Howard for his "economic management"
>Mining boom is ending
>Australia has nothing to show for it
>Howard era tax cuts and spending increases will never be repealed because Australians are entitled and the liberal party would never admit that they are the reason the budget is completely fucked
>recession looming
>Howard massively increased legal immigration of brown people through temporary work visas, from which it is very easy to get permanent residence
>Chinese investors can easily buy land in Australia and then send Chinese workers to work here
>Abbott and Turnbull continue this practice
/r/ing a Howard smug pepe so I can post it when we're officially in a recession and the next census shows we're under 80% white
>>52148915
>more oild than norway
>still a shithole
>>52152100
Medibank private was an extremely profitable business that was providing the government with like $400 million in revenue a year
The Government had no involvement in the company since Rudd ordered the company be run like It was a for-profit business in 2007
Abbott literally sold it because "Muh short term gain", "Muh Surplus", "Muh gotta please Liberal party donators"
>Australia and Norway bantering each other
this is like watching a rich kid laughing at his friend because he has slightly cheaper gucci shoes
>>52152312
If I'm not mistaken, Telecom broke even (even though it provided a better service to the consumer).
>>52149525
SNAP NIGGA
SNAP
>>52149290
They've already had requests for seeds in it once. Not that bad an idea apparently
>http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/19/europe/svalbard-global-seed-vault-syria/
>>52151733
>>52151795
upload is a lot harder to cap is what I've been told, I get like 100/250
Norway's economy is in a pretty sad state desu, the oil dominates their economy so much that it cannibalises on other sectors of their economy that could provide a more sustainable long term income for the country while the high tariffs on many foreign products combined with subsidises for local products have made their economy quite uncompetitive in many fields as well. Now with the oil price on an all time low the Norwegian government is starting to feel the consequences of those policies. I hope they swiftly reform their economy and promote other sectors or else a long oil induced hangover will be felt for a decade or more.
>>52151453
This is where all the low-cost housing is.
>>52149064
You don't seem to understand how external debt works. Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, UK, Canada and Australia all have external debt ranging from 92 (Canada) to 406 (UK) percent of their GDP, and they're all AAA credit rated countries. Debt is in no way unhealthy for such economies. Norway is also a net international creditor, which means our external debt is less than the total external debt other countries owe us.
There are still more Norwegians living in poverty than there are Australians living in poverty
>>52155631
you mean to tell me that failure to diversify and government-induced anticompetitiveness can have negative long term effects?
>>52159218
>Australians
>Norwegians
>Living in poverty
It's literally impossible to end up homeless in Norway, no matter how bad you fuck up the government will be there to provide for you.
Poverty is a meme here. You're considered to be living below the poverty line if you make less than 235,200NOK a year, before our currency crashed that equaled close to 40,000USD. You can make a decent living with that kind of money.
>>52155631
Overdramatizing. We were ranked as number 24 in the world in economic complexity in 2013.
>>52155631
Not true, go back to school Sven. You are too dumb, as of now, to talk about economics.
>>52159439
>You can make a decent living with that kind of money.
Outside Norway ;)
Isn't /int/ supposed to be a friendly place? Why hasn't a mod deleted this bully thread yet?
>>52160545
Put away that wink, Ivan. It's decent in Norway too, even tho it's far from the average income. After taxes that will be enough to rent a comfy apartment, own a car with insurance, average internet, food, and perhaps even a couple of money-sucking hobbies if you don't waste money.
>>52160775
A co-celebration would be better tbqh.
