> Now, there are some cultural reasons to do this--preventing jealousy, hiding inequality. But it really feels like a social band-aid, a temporary solution hidi

> Now, there are some cultural reasons to do this--preventing jealousy, hiding inequality. But it really feels like a social band-aid, a temporary solution hiding the symptoms but not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that our brains evolved in the Stone Age, and many of our instincts - particularly those to do with status-seeking, envy, thinking of life as a zero-sum game - are destructive and maladaptive in the present day. This is a problem beyond our power to fix. We don't get to debug our DNA. All we can hope for is social band-aids, temporary solutions hiding the symptoms but not the underlying problem, so the fact that hiding salaries falls into this category is not a valid criticism thereof.