I got quiet about norway as soon as I pointed out that capitalists deny the presence of competing systems whenever there are signs of success and you didn't respond to that. I figured you acknowledged it as true

now, you appear to conflate socialism, a transitional state, with communism, the conceptual model of a radical democracy that has never been tried before, despite plenty of propaganda from all sides labeling things as communist.

now, if you think norway is doing better than the us in terms of human rights and general well being because of market regulation, let me break some news for you. the "success story" of US's hoping to regulate Amazon does not speak much for capitalism, really. first of all, it's by no means certain that even the most powerful nation in the world will succeed at that, and, if it does, it will be within its own borders, where it has jurisdiction, and globalized capital won't have much trouble moving its HQ elsewhere to keep on exploiting the rest of the world while moderating slightly its exploitation within US borders. that's the best case scenario.

now, if the US, the most powerful nation, has failed to regulate Walmart, and is now struggling to regulate the more powerful Amazon, what are the odds that Norway's market regulators could get even close?

what makes Norway superior in well being and human rights are, well, elements of socialism, that capitalism pushers relabel as social democracy for propaganda purposes
(tbc)