Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public?

Not having access to information is one of the things that makes an economy suboptimal, so overall, I think making salaries public should be good.

At least some of the issues in actually implementing the above is the impact of the transition. The economy becomes more optimal if everyone takes this new information to make intelligent decisions about themselves (and not be caught up with pure jealousy type of things), and the resulting shuffling balances the salaries out again according to people contribution/skill levels. During the transition however, a lot of messy things would happen, leading to short-term losses in the economy.

I generally hear that such transitions often have to be slowed down considerably and implemented in phases to not have negative spiraling effects on the economy, like the stock of an underpaying company going down considerably even if the company as such was doing good, or HR salaries overshooting because of the sudden overload that may come.

I highly welcomed glassdoor.com when it showed up.

Doing your burglaries in the right area is impotent, but for what I can gather from reading the newspapers professional burglars also looks at other things to maximize their profit.

For example in an area you can have to houses that looks the same, but one is own by a couple that is old and not that rich. They do have the money to live there, but barely so they don't spend that much. In the other house you have someone that is younger and just got rich. They will be more likely to have movable objects like jewelry, Loui Vuitton handbags and a new TV one can steal.

The local junkies are of course just breaking into random apartments, but a lot of the burglaries her is done by professorial teems. They want to know what to expect when burglarizing someone.

I worked at a small company a big company bought bought and moved from the finance group to the business development group and kept my salary the same, another business development person who had our key accounts was paid 60% of what I was because she had been promoted twice in a few years. Her salary was rising at double digits a year, but was still far under where her peers were. Getting 12-15% raises every year feels great, until you learn you make a lot less than others. The company was going to easily save over 150k in salary moving her up to the average over a period of years.