The US is vastly richer than Norway, and benefits from economies of scale.

You’re right it’s not apples to apples at all.

The us chooses not to because the ruling class are barbaric and would make less money.

Well Norway was massively richer per capita than the US until quite recently and still currently is by a slight margin.

While I appreciate the excuse making, the fact is the US is by far and away the richest country to have ever existed, and the average citizen has a much lower quality of life than those in much poorer countries.

It’s a disgrace. Anything else you say is a weak excuse.

Are you not confusing per capita wealth/income with something else?

Russia is also technically 5x richer than Norway in that sense. Of course they have 25x more people..