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by _delirium
4863 days ago
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The relatively low inequality in Norway probably reduces reasons for people to care, since a large segment of the population make very similar incomes. I live in Denmark, and among "regular" professionals there is very little friction over salary because everyone makes similar salaries— you only deviate significantly upwards if you go to things like finance or start a successful company, and you deviate downwards if you're a grocery worker and similar (but even they get a decent wage... around $40k/yr w/ full benefits is just about the minimum possible wage for someone who's employed). In the rest of the cases you make something vaguely in the vicinity of Regular Middle-Class Salary, which most people are pretty happy with. A fully public database would be interesting for auto-targeting, though. Someone like Amazon could feed it as another factor into their pricing algorithms. |
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People do care a lot. When thus tax list gets published the newspapers don’t write about anything else for a week :) The data is extensively mined. Maps and list are produced an mass to show things like: * Who are the riches in your area? * Where do the poor people live? * What is the average income in your profession?
For 99% of the Norwegian population, there tax record will be the first hit on Google for their name. If you as a male goes on a date with a girl, you can be sure she has viewed your tax record. So will here parents as soon as they learn your name (there is an app for that).
When thus list didn't required a log in there also was a Facebook app that displayed the income for all your friends.