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I don't even see salary or what your debt is as "personal information" (am Swede not in Sweden), personal information is stuff that no one else would need to know. What people earn affects not just people around you and others in the workplace but also society at large, makes a ton of sense for that stuff to be public.

Especially great that you can see what employees at competitors earn, what your peers at your workplace earn and what your boss earns. Become a hell of lot easier to ensure you're not exploited. Helps that Sweden has a really strong union-culture as well.

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> I don't even see salary or what your debt is as "personal information" (am Swede not in Sweden), personal information is stuff that no one else would need to know. What people earn affects not just people around you and others in the workplace but also society at large, makes a ton of sense for that stuff to be public.

In a high trust culture I get this. But what about if you're in a low trust culture with quite some "not so orderly behavior" (if you will).

Perhaps one of the steps to a high trust culture is actually trusting people.

> In a high trust culture I get this.

Wait, aren't Sweden like literally the world leader by rapes count?

Our definition of rape is VERY broad by international standards, so comparisons are complicated.

your brain is cooked if you think sweden is leading the world in rape count

He's also trying to infer something about migrants here, he's just not willing to say it outright.

Sounds like someone who needs to lay off the X/twitter feed.

Declared or actual?

There is a huge difference in most countries.

Sweden may well be one of the few countries where being raped isn't shameful/your fault for dressing too lightly/punishable by death.

Yep, and this applies to several other types of crimes too. Countries with the very lowest rate of reported rape, domestic violence and so on tend to be horrible for women, because the reason for low rate is that they are too afraid to report the crimes.

I think it's the opposite, the mismatch of information availability between employer and employee makes that a low trust culture, which is addressed by making that information public instead. If it was a high trust culture, employees would trust their employer pay them fairly, but they don't, hence this information deserves to be public.

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