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There is an "ignorance is bliss" argument and a "if you don't know what is on offer, you can't ask for it" argument.

The whole privacy system is geared towards supporting employers and people in the upper echelons of salary.

And yet, at least in the US, it's probably the people in the highest echelons of salary whose salaries are most public (in addition to public sector employees).

Highest echelons of society don't make their money from salaries. But they are interested in manipulating your salary and making its in your interest to hide it

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