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While it is a point, the fact is that other Nordic countries, Benelux, and France all have similar attitudes to the work-life balance, and not all of them have access to infinite money like Norway does.

The Netherlands is infamous for the Dutch disease, courtesy of our natural gas resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think a vast majority of that money went to building bicycle and traffic infrastructure. We did not put it in the savings like Norway did.

We'll see soon how we will manage without that income - if they do actually shut down the fields.

Norway already was and would continue to be successful without oil. Bangladeshi is one of the most corrupt and disfunctional countries in the world. Oil would have made the situation worse not better. Google “oil curse” to see what happens to most countries when oil is found.

That is questionable, people from Russia and Saudi Arabia had found way more oil in mid XX

Nobody said it was the only ingredient. Culture helps, as the wealth.