Do publicly revealed salaries promote "communist" ideology? If everyone knows how much everyone else is getting paid then does envy (jealousy) get provoked in the zeitgeist to push for a fixed salary determined by the job title rather than more flexible salaries?
Can transparency backfire and result in new degrees and flavors of oppression by the feelings of the general population?
Is Norway the sort of model for what Steemit should be like, where the rewards are equalized?
The fact that anonymous searches are no longer permitted discourages criminals from searching for wealthy people to target.
But the problem is what would stop "criminals" from bribing people to do random searches, create a secret database, and then access that? I would think this is very naive to think criminals can't do anonymous searches.
There have been other stories about children from low-income families who have been bullied in school, by classmates who looked up their parents' financial situation.
And this is ethical or not?