The real thing you can learn from Nordic Socialism: big government programs are easy with oil revenues, where you get goods and services from foreigners with very little effort on the part of your own citizens.

At that point then everyone takes credit for how well that all works.

This is like pointing out that Bill Gates' household proves how communism works on a small scale.

Only norway has significant oil revenue - sweden and denmark specifically are primarily economies driven by a highly educated workforce and well regulated job markets - Lego, Novo, Maersk are all exemples of this kinds of companies depending on those socalled big government programmes to produce highly educated and specialised workers.

> big government programs are easy with oil revenues

Sweden doesn't have much oil revenues as far as I know