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> Basically none

?? secretive, highly competitive and rivalrous insider rings and you saying flatly "no impact" makes it so?

the only thing that did NOT happen was "no impact".. its not public information.. how could cascading side effects be seen or measured?

absolutely need more sleuthing IMO and data dumps -- not by tax bureacrats -- here and elsewhere

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"tax bureaucrats" are what took down Al Capone. These days Al would have much better lawyers and layers of shell corporations in various tax havens. He would be untouchable merely because the effort to sleuth out the truth has become much harder. Laws and regulations subdue any advantages transparency tech could bring.

Are we doomed then? Modern day All Capone´s are now richer than ever, above the laws, buying whole social networks, or becoming potus. Is there anything that can be done?

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