[BoorishBears]

That only works because Norway is a tiny homogeneous country .

(yes I know some Norwegian will angrily reply about how that's false, I have plenty family that emigrated there from West Africa but let's be real... if the US is the melting pot, Norway is the slightly warm shot glass.)

Add in large amounts of diversity, not just in terms of race but also in terms of socioeconomics and suddenly it doesn't work.

[matsemann]

Could this not be a small part in maintaining a smaller socioeconomic difference? Hard to underpay someone when they know what their role should pay.

[BoorishBears]

Lol no, it couldn't for any meaningful definition of "small part" if we're being realistic.

We're not talking about examining a black box here, you can just look at Norway's socioeconomic history and realize is not because they share salaries.

Not mismanaging profit from massive natural oil reserves, tiny relative population to all their resources (not just oil), and having a largely homogeneous population that valued education and social benefit.

All such major factors that sharing salary can't really be considered a meaningful data point.

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It's more an effect of their situation than the opposite, they can still share salaries because things went so well, and the idea is to catch people who are abusing the tax collection system.

A quick search shows that while you could theoretically get someone's salary historically, it wasn't until the early 2000s it was made easy (presumably by making a standardized digital system)

Then in 2014 they added alerting to know who looked which resulted in a 90% drop in inquiries...

[matsemann]

Dont "lol no" people in a discussion, behave better.

[BoorishBears]

Throwing a tantrum as soon as you don't have anything left to say...

If I had left it at "lol no" (it was a funny point just looking at the country you're talking about...) at least I could see why you're upset.

But instead I still proceeded to break down why you're wrong in quite a detailed manner and school you a bit on the topic so you can go forward with a better informed view of the country.

The customary reply there isn't a tantrum, it's a "thank you" or a "that's interesting for me to learn". Some people really do forget how to behave the moment another person doesn't agree with them.

[matsemann]

You're really full of yourself, aren't you?

But fine, thank you for schooling me in arrogance.