A quick Google turned up some refutation of your statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147 Looking

A quick Google turned up some refutation of your statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147 Looking further, it appears that Sweden has decreased the amount of transparency by requiring that people make specific requests that notify the taxpayer of the request. http://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-salaries-freely-available-2017-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-salaries-freely-availa... Apparently, there were issues. I'd like to see this experiment run for a longer period of time in more culturally diverse environments, though.