If the technology existed to swap your perfectly good eyes with malfunctioning ones and then swap them back again a day later, would you?

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Imagine a world where the government is about to regulate wages so that top incomes are no more than ten times the lowest. Imagine you’re earning a really high salary, as a banker let’s say. Imagine your salary will be cut and your bonuses capped.
Ideologically you believe in the absolute purity of money, you believe it shouldn’t be interfered with and you believe you have every right to make as much of it as you can.

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What we consider acceptable today was different five years ago, very different twenty years ago and unrecognisable a hundred years ago.

How does it happen?

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