So how did scandis got rich?

Decades of stability and consensus in their governments

Why do European idiots not understand the value of this?

Bonus meme explanation: very slavish culture which feeds into the first reason

>before 19th century
constant civil war, constant coups, religious percesuction, witch hunts, poverty, famines, nonstop unrest
>after 19th century
one of the richest and most stable countries on Earth
How did they do it?

Nationalism made them realise they're not a real country, so they had to chill down before anyone slapped their shit and ended their existence

Sources on IQ are actually spotty, but all of the relevant sources place scandinavia somewhere above european average. It's possible they are actually not above the middle european standard, but still achieve higher wealth due to higher social trust or other psycho-genetic factors.

Compared to the rest of europe it does.

Norway was poor as shit before it found oil.

Finland was forced to give Russia massive war reparations. After it was over, Russia just kept buying the same shit it got free before.

Sweden was never took part in ww2. They even kept selling their shit to everyone during it.

No fucking idea about Denmark.

Sweden and Denmark had empires before Napoleon.

>Norway was poor as shit before it found oil.

But that's wrong. Left side of pic related, related.

That map is wrong. In interwar period Norway was still one of the poorest western European nations. But it was not "poor as shit", like it was before 1800.

>Compared to the rest of europe it does.
Compared to Russia, Scandinavia is a year long summer holiday.

>in a very harsh climate
t. brainlet

The Scandi countries had nazism-light up until the 60's, I'm talking forced sterilization of retards, mongols and the insane

Also national coherence due to low immigration and relatively small population, and they are the European countries furthest away from Africa and the ME

Also oil for Norway and Denmark, cheap hydro-energy for Sweden and Norway, and mineral deposits in the mountains
Denmark had brown coal as well, which was stopped being harvested due to cleaner black coal becoming cheap after WW2 and the Coal and Steel Union of the predecessor to the EU

Also, the value of education of the common people had been promoted by rulers since the 17-18th centuries, so the citizens were able to more easily adapt and evolve + politics were more civilized due to a high level of open public debate in the newspapers which made societal change happen in ways the public actually wanted when they wanted it, for the most part.

>n interwar period Norway was still one of the poorest western European nations.

Scandinavia is northern Europe not Western.

>forced sterilization of retards, mongols and the insane
We had the same thing in commie countries.

Continuing my post because I have some more points:

A strong worker's movement combined with fair rule of law and progressive taxes that made the countries ideal for trade and investment, yet also raised the working class into the middle class
A strong emphasis on education (I know I said it before) which resulted in university becoming free and enabled citizens to aquire skills and knowledge to compete on the world market + later on monetary education support, which meant student could focus on their studies.
This lead to many children of poor families to gain education and rise into the next social bracket.

The lack of corruption other anons have mentioned is also a major factor why Scandinavia is a good place to do business in. Nobody talks about it here, but everybody knows that you have to know people and do favours and all that cliche corruption shit to get some things done, but you have a legal framework and an actual functioning and impartial justice system that makes sure your money won't dissapear, and public officials don't need to be bribed to issue permits and stuff like that.

Last, but not least, both Sweden and Denmark have functioning royal houses that function as soft-power diplomats and partake as trade and culture ambassadors, raising the countries' prestige and enable better trade deals with foreign nations outside of the West that value "face", such as Japan, South Korea and China

Yes lets exclude anything to do with their historical inclination toward social and regulatory commercial policies.

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Scandinavians do not deserve their wealth, they got it either from stealing, oil or being lucky enough to not get destroyed by the nazis (yes I know they occupied Norway and Denmark but they where very lenient to them)

If they had not been so immoral and lucky they would still be living in nigger tier filth and squalor like they did for most of their history.

>Oy Vey!

not an argument