That's not really true for Norway.

When I received my stock options for the company I paid no taxes at all. When I exercised them I got a tax hit, but that had to be paid like six months later so there was no issue selling enough stock to pay the tax.

Another funny thing about wealth creation. Norway and Sweden has more dollar billionaires pr capita than the US [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_numbe... (sort the list by Population pr one billionaire).