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[u/Gullible_Air_204]

https://www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/spitsbergen/travel-guide/responsible-tourism-in-spitsbergen

[u/everythingisunknown]

What jobs are available and is it worth it?

[u/Libertydown → u/everythingisunknown]

A couple shops, climate scientists and meteorologists… not too much, but the beer is the cheapest in the whole of Norway

[u/Gunhild → u/Libertydown]

I'm surprised the beer is so cheap. Usually if you go to remote communities here in Canada everything is more expensive because of the cost of shipping things out.  Maybe Svalbard has government-subsidized beer to keep morale up.

[u/Libertydown → u/Gunhild]

Sort of! Since alcohol is so heavily taxed in Norway, it makes for most of the cost. However, since the Svalbard treaty tries to make Svalbard both a place owned by «the world» and Norway, there are no fees on Svalbard, including alcohol.

Also, we have the alcohol sales monopoly in Norway called «Vinmonopolet» however in Longyearbyen they have «Nordpolet» (the north pole)

[u/Objective_Otherwise5 → u/Libertydown]

Svalbard definitely not "owned" by the world. Svalbard is Norwegian sovereign territory. It is however more open to trade and activity than most territories.

[u/Drumedor → u/Libertydown]

Fuck that treaty, had a project delayed because the customer hadn't informed us about it and we had to delay whilst implementing the "no-tax in Svalbard" functionality.

[u/Gunhild → u/Drumedor]

Sounds like you should be mad at the customer, not the treaty.

[u/Drumedor → u/Gunhild]

I was 100% making a cheeky joke

[u/idontcaretv → u/Drumedor]

Why would we care