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> Why keep this stuff secret? Because none of it is fair and we all know it.

Bingo. It's also why offshore accounts is so prevalent amongst the wealthy.

> So you should piss off everyone else by rubbing it in their face that X was pretty lucky on timing? Or give everyone a raise the company can't afford?

Don't forget the other kind of "luck". So and so's father /friend/etc is X so they get better pay/access/etc.

This isn't just a problem in the private sector, the public sector is a problem too.

> Privacy is quite unfashionable nowadays.

Selective privacy is quite fashionable. The peasants don't get privacy.



I think offshore assets have more to do with navigation taxes.




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