you’re an evil genius
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I prefer to see this as a win/win for everyone’s preferences.
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I suspect that would work in the USA, but not in Canada. On my side of the border, far too many people -- prominent politicians included -- accuse anyone with high income of exploiting workers and cheating on their taxes. People don't want to be tarred with that brush.
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I think a far more useful approach in Canada would be if Notices of Assessment from the Canada Revenue Agency included the words "thank you" and some indication of what your
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That is such a great idea. Leaderboards are magic.
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It just occurred to me that you don't need to wait for the government to do this. A nonprofit could do it now. The big accounting and tax prep firms could authenticate the numbers on behalf of their clients.
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You sure people wouldn't treat it like a golf score?
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I think that’s exactly the point. Malcolm Gladwell discuses how executives keep track of their golf scores online, publicly, where anyone can track how much time they waste on golf instead of working. This would be the same effect—a dick measuring contest.
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In Sweden you can still check tax figures anonymously, they're even published in a physical book you can read at the library. Some people take pride in newspapers listing them as highest taxpayers, but both IKEA and Spotify founders did foreign-entity tax avoidance schemes.
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