| 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. - 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... |