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notch898a on April 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big di...

I would be curious to see what kind of studies in Svalbard have been done on this. Virtually all workers are in company housing. Has it devolved into feudalism in all but name?

ClumsyPilot on April 2, 2023 [–]

The Shard in the centre of London has 5 times more employees than Svalbard does.

They probably have family and/or property in Norway, and some of the best employee protections in the world?

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