Comment Re:Norway (Score 1) 229
Publicly posting tax information has nothing to do with wealth inequality.
That is the excuse, not the reason. The only ones that need to know your income is the computer systems that is used to calculate taxes.
Fighting wealth equality should happen in policies, not publicly shaming those who work hard and actually contributes to the society.
It is hard to explain to foreigners often, but there is a deep rooted culture of envy that historically have been strong where someone standing out in a positive way is pulled down as hard as possible.
Everyone should be equal, or else.
This is also ingrained in the school system and is one of the reasons we rank so low in the PISA tests.
Fortunately this is starting to go away as people come to their senses and stick to their own business
We just elected the first liberal government in many years and I hope they will make the necessary policy changes like removing the public tax information.