Greg, I do not agree. If I am writing a document with private content, then I do not want to let it be read by someone else except me.
No one has to read any letters or cv's or maybe documents for my lawyer, my medic, my friends or whatever. And after years there are a lot of documents one is writing, many private things. And i think, no one wants to sharew these with other users on the system! At least, I won't. Best Hans > hobbit:~$ ls -l .ssh > total 72 > ... > -rw------- 1 greg greg 1876 Sep 24 2019 id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 394 Sep 24 2019 id_rsa.pub > > The other 99.9% of your files are not secret, so they don't need to > be hidden.