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Xylakant
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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
It’s an accident. The TL;DR is: During WW2 wages were frozen and employers were looking for benefits they could offer to hire workers. Health care was one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
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And afterwards wages were pro-forma unfrozen, but income tax went up to ridiculous levels in the higher brackets like 90%.
So sneaking some tax free compensation to your employees was just as valuable.
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