Again, I say Norway is copying Sweden in being stupid, and is trying to out-do us as well.
Why? Because our Office of Unemployment, Statistics et cetera use the very same dodges.
Staistics used to protect a political narrative means politicians use the narrative as basis for decisions, meaning the decisions and strategies emplyed will at best be ineffective, at worst compound the problem.
For a most triumphant example, consider China's demographic crisis. I's not due to toxins or one child-policy or even cultural chauvinism - it's due to every party creature from the bottom up knew, from the days of Mao, to never report numbers showing anything counter-narrative.
And so the errors compounded, decade after decade, and policy was based on errors, and eventually the bill came due - an error in pop. no. that may be in the hundreds of millions of people.
Same here, with unemployment. For a fun time, try to find via Statistics Norway how many adults are self-supporting, drawing no welfare or benefits. That's a far more useful number. For Sweden, it is around 60% or so (from memory and the number is at least a decade old).
And since the public is pretty stupid when it comes to these things, no government-in-office can adress the problem and create the real numbers.
Because: they'd get the blame, despite the origin laying decades in the past.
Thanks for pointing out the deliberate misleading Norwegian labor statistics. Labor participation rates are indeed a governmental hoax created to convince the population into believing two lies: a) diversity is a strength. b) paint a glossy picture of government policies. SSB.no is a government agency. It will never tell the truth, especially regarding race based crime statistics.
I recall what my wife told me years ago (she worked in a kindergarten back then): there's way more adults than kids at time as the law™ proscribes X no. of adults per children. There's that, too, with regard to those who work™ 20-40 hours.
It's so odd as discourse points to, you know, 'grifting Africans on welfare' or whatever, but the reality (that is shown in official gov't data) is very different. Yet, politicos™ are running with their fake reality™, rendering all the above essentially meaningless distraction.
Most other Western countries won't share that much granular data, though, but there's also the entire 'does the gov't lie?' issue (to which the answer is, in my view, 'habitually, and compulsively, even [sic] in instances where they don't have to').
Again, I say Norway is copying Sweden in being stupid, and is trying to out-do us as well.
Why? Because our Office of Unemployment, Statistics et cetera use the very same dodges.
Staistics used to protect a political narrative means politicians use the narrative as basis for decisions, meaning the decisions and strategies emplyed will at best be ineffective, at worst compound the problem.
For a most triumphant example, consider China's demographic crisis. I's not due to toxins or one child-policy or even cultural chauvinism - it's due to every party creature from the bottom up knew, from the days of Mao, to never report numbers showing anything counter-narrative.
And so the errors compounded, decade after decade, and policy was based on errors, and eventually the bill came due - an error in pop. no. that may be in the hundreds of millions of people.
Same here, with unemployment. For a fun time, try to find via Statistics Norway how many adults are self-supporting, drawing no welfare or benefits. That's a far more useful number. For Sweden, it is around 60% or so (from memory and the number is at least a decade old).
And since the public is pretty stupid when it comes to these things, no government-in-office can adress the problem and create the real numbers.
Because: they'd get the blame, despite the origin laying decades in the past.
Thus, it spirals.
Oh my, of course that's the case: reality-as-is being almost gone, we'll be stumbling around in Plato's Cave.
As to Norway trying to out-stupid Sweden, well, it takes one to know one, eh?
Thanks for pointing out the deliberate misleading Norwegian labor statistics. Labor participation rates are indeed a governmental hoax created to convince the population into believing two lies: a) diversity is a strength. b) paint a glossy picture of government policies. SSB.no is a government agency. It will never tell the truth, especially regarding race based crime statistics.
Exactly.
I recall what my wife told me years ago (she worked in a kindergarten back then): there's way more adults than kids at time as the law™ proscribes X no. of adults per children. There's that, too, with regard to those who work™ 20-40 hours.
It's so odd as discourse points to, you know, 'grifting Africans on welfare' or whatever, but the reality (that is shown in official gov't data) is very different. Yet, politicos™ are running with their fake reality™, rendering all the above essentially meaningless distraction.
Most other Western countries won't share that much granular data, though, but there's also the entire 'does the gov't lie?' issue (to which the answer is, in my view, 'habitually, and compulsively, even [sic] in instances where they don't have to').