In Sweden, you can look up your neighbor's tax bill

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Privacy is cool, but weaponized economic transparency is cooler. Sweden operates under the 'Principle of Public Access', meaning anyone can request the tax records of literally anyone else in the country. If you check on your neighbor, the government sends them a notification that you were snooping. It is an aggressively effective way to close the gender pay gap and prevent tax fraud by outsourcing the auditing to nosy locals.