Were I to ask you how many sexual partners you’ve had, you may well tell me. And, according to recent research, the same goes if I asked if you’d had an affair – or even any sexually transmitted diseases. But your income?
I don’t know what circles you move in, but the ones I move in would regard such questions highly impertinent. If you were fortunate, you would be advised to go forth and multiply.
Apparently, you are far more likely to fill me in on your STD history than your salary.
Really? Seriously? Either you are very strange or you know a lot of very strange people.
None of your business. That’s just too personal.
Indeed. All of the above is none of your business.
But how different things might be were we not so secretive about our salaries. If we were entirely open with everyone about what we earned, and if every business were required to publish details of what it paid to whom, I’m pretty sure we’d all benefit.
What I earn is my business and no one else’s and I intend to keep it that way. So go fuck yourself with the rough end of a pineapple wrapped in razor wire, you jumped-up little creep. It’s called privacy. Whatever people wish to keep private is up to them. We have no obligation to be transparent about anything. Government should be transparent to us, we have no reciprocal obligation. So fuck off.
It’s almost as if these people are a totally different species from us isn’t it? Is it some form of exhibitionism wanting everyone to know even the messiest details of your life? Maybe it makes your existence seem less futile and pointless if every one knows everything about your income and your health issues.
Most of my employment contracts explicitly forbade me from disclosing my salary and package and rightly so. Why would a Company make their negotiations harder and more expensive by allowing prospective hires to know the remuneration packages for others.
I once had to interview the public about their sex lives. I was dreading it but it was hilarious. Men couldn’t wait to talk about it and the elderly lady I had to find thought it was a hoot!
You wouldn’t have got much from me 😀
You have to tell the taxman, and the mortgage/loan officers, and possibly others whose decisions might be affected by that knowledge. What’s the big deal if everybody knows? Government employees all have their salaries published, at least in some jurisdictions, and none of them have had heart attacks because of this loss of privacy. Why not ask what benefits might arise from it and then compare any psychological effects with those benefits?
Yes, I tell the HMRC. No one else needs to know because it is none of their goddamned business. And I don’t need a reason for that. I don’t go around snooping on what other people earn, so why should they want to know what I earn? It being none of their business. There are no benefits to everyone knowing my personal business. None whatsoever.
Well said. The government is far too intrusive.