This week the British papers revealed in news about how much the BBC's on-air stars get paid, though the salaries of their counterparts in commercial TV remain under wraps. In Norway, there are no such secrets. Anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid - and it rarely causes problems.
In the past, your salary was published in a book. A list of everyone's income, assets and the tax they had paid, could be found on a shelf in the public library. These days, the information is online, just a few keystrokes away.
As far as I remember (by the way nothing to do with op, only the country mentioned...)
on another thread, MeDotOrg wrote:Specifically, which countries have penal systems that you admire which do not have the rates of recidivism of U.S. prisoners? Perhaps Norway?
Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
and knowing everyone's salary matters to who and why?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
The CCC wrote:I don't know about everyone, but those in governmental office, elected office, or the military, their salary should be known.
and there are a lot of people, not fitting to the categories you listed - they are called 'vip'
salary and tax (stress on the second...)
poor subby believes it is about 'joe the plumber' types
Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
So, Choyo Chagas, is the point of your post that Norway is doing a good thing, or that it's doing a bad thing?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
That was an argument against being secretive about one's own salary, and it was a poor argument at that. It didn't really offer a valid argument in support of OP and my question. But thanks for the cheesy lowest common denominator television.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
That was an argument against being secretive about one's own salary, and it was a poor argument at that. It didn't really offer a valid argument in support of OP and my question. But thanks for the cheesy lowest common denominator television.
If you would have followed his logic, you'd see that it totally addresses your question. The basic argument is simple: markets work more efficiently when the participants in the market have more information. Do you really take issue with that concept?
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Dr. Shades wrote:So, Choyo Chagas, is the point of your post that Norway is doing a good thing, or that it's doing a bad thing?
it is a good thing
if you want, i can explicate it by counterexamples... they are about romania and hungary - but are valid for every not-norway countries, including united states
are you really interested in?
Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.