@2unlimited: Why do you come up with Wizz Air salary when I told you it was Ryan Air captains who could get about 100 000 Euro with all bonuses on company contract ? Why divert into something I did not say? Because it does not fit into your view of the world ?
As for bending the law I can not imagine how your friend can earn 110 000 - 125 000 Euro per year and pay 35 % tax on this salary in Norway
https://www.nordisketax.net/main.asp...or/eng/i07.asp the only way it is possible I believe is something like having 5 children etc. not living with him that he have to pay for or something like that....... so he can deduct it from the tax. The tax bracket is more confused now than it was when I lived there but looks like he still have to pay the same with such a salary per year. Before it was 36 % up to 536 000 NOK and then like 47 % for everything earned above that. In addition to that you have særavgift (special tax) on goods that the state believe you should not have like for example a car that is fun to drive. But they shall have support from me for the laws regarding sea and boats, all honor to Norway tax free boat fuel, boats for the same price as rest of Europe and almost free to do what you wish when on the sea.
Oh and I do not wish to start the great socialist off topic, but I do know national socialists are just a much more wicked and crazy part of the socialist ideology "tree" even if they did maybe murder less people than the communists I still find them even more crazy. And how can they not be socialists if they wish the state control the finances totally, more money to social security (only for those who are of their nation/race) and also the state to control totally the life of the individuals. Oh and they also thought about capitalists as the evil of the world just like communists did. Capitalism is the total opposite of any kind of socialism cause capitalism is total freedom and equality of rights for people of the whole world no matter who they are and where they come from.
As for all the personal stuff you write.... my family moved to Norway mostly cause my mother wanted to as a doctor in 1997 long before Poland was member in the EU. And Norway actually wanted doctors and invited them to come so it was just as much helping Norway get their health care queues lower in exchange for salary. I did not want to move (I was 8 then).... so when I was able to I returned home.
As for Norway well maybe the politicians were not corrupt because they did not have 40 years of forced communism/socialism to teach them how to? And its also just luck that Soviets did not wish to "liberate" Norway after getting Finnmark. And that the USA who so many in Norway do not like, gave free marshall help to Norway. Oh writing in the same way as you do I would suggest Norway pay their 2 % for NATO cause Poland is paying 3,7 % already (and its also much more in cash) or should the US just let Putin get the Norwegian oil platforms and fish their fish with their trawlers (cause clearly even the soviets did not wish the Norwegian mainland) ? Its that kind of funny nonsense you are writing........ Oh and BTW before you start telling me we should be afraid of Russia. We hated forced communism/socialism and NOT Russia (even Russians were suffering from forced communism). Russia today is a state with 13 % linear tax and foreign captains in Aeroflot do not have any bad conditions.... so no we are not scared of Russia only some politicians are for propaganda purposes. Personally I like both Russia and any other Eastern European nation.
As for leave and vacation imagine pilots in Ryan Air got 5 on and
4 off roster in addition to the vacation, and pilots in LOT get so much free time they have time to be part time instructors, or do a lot of other flying that they are allowed to with their contract (I do not know what Wizz Air require so do not come with Wizz Air does this..... and that... so every other airline do the same).
PS. So clearly if you got more salary and less tax you would not buy an insurance? And you would also spend every single penny and never save anything? I understand some people in the west got different mentality but seriously you do not have to spend everything you earn. In Norway they have a funny program called luksusfellen where they show how sometimes such mentality of spending and spending ends.
P.PS. Get insured from fatigue also and your problem is solved, still cost less than tax and give you 100 % sick pay.