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Comment by sandebert | Hacker News Reader

Please don't just throw out an opinion without explaining the reasoning behind it.

Income is very personal information. I’d rather have naked pics of me on the internet than my income.

I’ve had friendships ruined because one party earned significantly more/less than the other and this was accidentally disclosed.

For a government to make this highly valuable and personal information available to the public strikes me as utterly dystopian.

In every society, there’s a tradeoff between the individual and the collective, and I think it all works better when it’s heavily skewed towards the individual. Society has no moral right to nose around in one’s bank account.

Which individuals though? This seems to highly benefit th many poorer people, at the expense of mainly the rich elite. As a member of that elite who understands where my quality of life comes from (robust social contract enabling wealth creation through cooperation without friction)and where my place is (I'm top 30-15% of my home country but no higher, but was born into a life that could have easily launched me into the top 10% if I was a smarter/more disciplined person) , this seems fine

Rights apply to everyone, or no one

This is a nonsequitur. Both variations apply to everyone, it's just that not publishing the financial information mainly helps the rich, while the poor suffer in subtle ways. This is about which rights we grant, not to whom.

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