Bottom line we have the same or actually a higher standard of living than in America.
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There are 4,574,560 people living in Norway.
There are 287,524,205 people living in the USA
There are 5.6 million people in USA whos households are valued at more than one million dollars. There are more millionaires in the USA then there are total number of people living in norway.
A vast difference in population skews the perspective