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Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm by agumonkey on Sunday November 05, 2017 @04:59PM (#15631907)
Tiny note:

it's been many decades of the same issue, people work, people share, things go weird, they get angry (and rightly so).

let me blame the victims slightly (barely at all, it's mental exercise). Isn't the problem in the tax -> action function ? it's a big black box. That's always the case when people get angry about anything, it's because they have to deal with an unpredictable and costly black box.

Solution: no more big, no more black. We need a more tractable and open system that can be more efficient.

More questions: should people be able to see all what their money does ? or would it backfire into micromanagement and critics ?

Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm by pas on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:17PM (#15632377)
budgets are public, no? FOIA works pretty well, no?

people don't look, don't have time to understand it, and usually don't think, they just demand.

Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm by agumonkey on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:33PM (#15632454)
That's is also true. But I firmly believe that the solution is not to make two systems fight but rather to find a middle ground.

- Make a system that is slightly clearer and smaller

- Entice people to be more educated