"You would only be upset because you currently work in a company with a culture that doesn't value transparency as a core value." So you are saying that when b

"You would only be upset because you currently work in a company with a culture that doesn't value transparency as a core value." So you are saying that when buffer hires someone they are aware that transparency = "we may publish your salary some day"? And that everything is an open book? Hard to believe that is the case. Or that people didn't feel under pressure to go along with (as some research has show) what they previous may have loosely agreed to (See Cialdini "consistency" principle).