I don't think Norway or Finland are particularly tyrannical
I worry that nationalized oil wouldn't work out the same way when there are no countries w/o nationalized oil to sell it to
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but supposing it does--we still haven't abolished capital or state
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the point is to get rid of the selling part
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ok but then there's nothing to pay for the various social programs that are a key part of the Nordic model
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that's why Catholic social teaching demands a world government
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That doesn't get around my problem: consider e.g. that USA would have harder time even w nationalised oil bc we use so much more of it. Norway's oil pays for Norway and then some, this doesn't necessarily hold for the world's oil re: the world
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one must acknowledge that under communism - in any world that is to bear greater semblence to the world to come - certain luxuries & exploitations that we've come to demand as normal would no longer be so in the case of pineapples, this may be a shame. but as for oil, fantastic
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