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Ross, the economy already has been crippled, to no small extent by those who cashed in on it in the company boardrooms. It's like saying the Titanic could have sunk if it hadn't been abandoned after its fate was obvious.
As for the real talents of whom you speak who would be driven away if the top salary were not enough for them, without themselves being able to add to it many times over, let them go,as long as they don't dare to attempt taking the economies finances with them.
Barry in the past suggested they would do just this, just transfer everything abroad, leaving us with nothing.
It goes to show what mentality they would be made of if they contemplated it. Not that I'm suggesting they have thought it over, probably more scare-mongering on Barry's part.
But my guess is, if they did try it, they'd have police with handcuffs awaiting them and sending them back to Britain, together with the economy's finances - in the form of shares and bonds and other paper paraphanalia - stocked away in their briefcase.
People are human all over the world, and no society is essentially evil. Here in the West, the people used to be disgusted when dictators transferredd their wealth to western banks (Philipines, Zaire ...) and only the banksters themselves eagerly accepted the stolen wealth.