Hacker News Reader

I think it's a combination of "everyone knows they're doing this stuff" and "the ones who could do something about it (i.e. charge/prosecute, change laws, etc.) are implicated".

Much like the problem in the US Congress: they are not subject to insider trading laws, so they can make huge sums of money acting on non-public information. The only people that can change that are ... members of the US Congress.

Some countries cared more than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Panama_Papers

Hey now, that's not fair. Someone cared enough to murder the journalist that published them with a car bomb.

That allegedly would be Yorgen Fenech, via Alfred and George Degiorgio, Vincent Muscat, and as for the explosives, Robert Agius and Jamie Vella.

Well, in a few notorious cases the tax services cared and the voters cared.