I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. The prompt this week is really a double-edged sword; it comes with an advantage and a disadvantage. When you go online, you hear influencers talking about holding our leaders and politicians accountable, and so far so good; we have not been able to do so because we don't even know what they are doing or how much they earn or how much they are looting or keeping aside for themselves and their unborn generation, but with everyone's salary earnings, account history, and accounts online, I think we will be able to hold them accountable. From there, we would be able to see what is coming in and what is going out, and from there we can ask questions and hold them accountable, and they must give an account of what is coming in and why what is going out is going out.
The fact that things like our salaries, account balance, and transaction history are kept private is one of the reasons they do what they do; nobody is seeing or knows, so nobody can ask questions. At the same time, those who are not earning a reasonable amount would automatically lose the little respect attached to their names. Imagine a friend or even just a colleague just goes online, searches your name, sees your salary earnings, account balance, and transaction history and other things only you and your bank should know of, and then uses it to tease you in front of everyone in the office; the shame and the embarrassment are not ones to go away like they're nothing.
So making salaries, account balance, and account history public can help us and can also be detrimental both to our politicians and the masses because our politicians will no longer be able to loot, and that way they use funds for what they are allocated for instead of taking them for themselves and their unborn generations. When everything is public and online, anyone can gain access to it, and we can ask questions when and where necessary. That is one of the reasons I like the idea of making things public, but what about the masses who will be hurt both emotionally and mentally when something they have always wanted to keep private becomes public?
As much as making salaries public sounds like a good idea because that way we learn what our corrupt leaders will want to keep private and we can see through their games, I still think I will still choose that we keep it private for the sake of the masses. Our salaries being public is like putting everything about us out there for everyone to see and for everyone to know, taking away the little privacy we are enjoying and the only thing that is still fully private at the moment, as everything else is on the internet. As humans, I think one of the things that should be kept private is our earnings, both for security reasons and for privacy reasons. Many people are targets today because they showed off, and making our salary earnings public can result in making people targets.
