Hello!
Eva Durant wrote:
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> so far the effect of globalisation is making the rich richer and the
> poor poorer in every country - perhaps with the exception of Norway.
The difference in income and fortune between the richest and the
poorest in Norway has been growing. But the difference between the
best paid and the lowest paid of people working for wages has not
grown. The reasons are:
1. Tax cuts on returns from shares and stocks, and larger returns,
which have made the rich richer.
2. The largest tradeunion confederation has the last 5-10 years all
the time gone for increases in wages in kroner and not in percents,
and this has reduced the difference in wages among common people.
This means that the large majority of the population
(" the common man") have not been split in different fractions
because of wage differences, and I think that this is important
because as long as the population is united it is strong and can do
what it finds necessary to do. And there are no low-wages problem in
Norway, everybody is getting union-wages.
We do not see and meet the rich. We meet and see our neighbours, and
we are all quite well off I think, and the incomes are not very much
different among us ordinary people. And therefore this situation is
not too uncomfortable.
Tor Forde
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