If people had the right to choose whether they want to publish their income, this is one thing. Its a good thing to recognise those who choose this option.
For the fact of attitudes persisting, it is a matter of values. Values across the language-/culture- barrier gap, are equated, causatively in realtime by the people of the cultures, according to a near-infinite set of whim. Religions are a form of this whim, as are governments, and many, many other institutions, incapable also of crossing the language-/culture- barrier gap, settle on the easy way out: "dollar-*" value.
Alas, this is the nature of the materialist beast.
I'm quite okay with people knowing each others salaries, if they are expected to work with each other. No really successful group survives its internal secrecy liabilities, at least not for long, imho ..
+EDIT: cause/effect? I think it's both. Across a multitude of impinging factors.
For the fact of attitudes persisting, it is a matter of values. Values across the language-/culture- barrier gap, are equated, causatively in realtime by the people of the cultures, according to a near-infinite set of whim. Religions are a form of this whim, as are governments, and many, many other institutions, incapable also of crossing the language-/culture- barrier gap, settle on the easy way out: "dollar-*" value.
Alas, this is the nature of the materialist beast.
I'm quite okay with people knowing each others salaries, if they are expected to work with each other. No really successful group survives its internal secrecy liabilities, at least not for long, imho ..
+EDIT: cause/effect? I think it's both. Across a multitude of impinging factors.