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If you want to work in the financial sector, you should have to accept an implant (hormonal, electrical or mechanical) that puts you in more pain the more overleveraged you are.
This will require a simple WiFi or cellular bridge to collect the data, and some sort of transducer that causes pain.
1:3
or 1:5 seems like a sensible threshold. 1:10 should have you in agony, and 1:35 should have knocked you unconscious back around 1:20.
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10 years later... the financial sector is thriving with masochists |
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"Ah hah, Mr Bond, as you can feel I have cunningly devalued your assets, exposing you to exquiste agony. You will never trade again ..." Sir Fred Blofield |
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- "Do you expect me to maintain my ratio of tier 1 capital to risk-adjusted assets in accordance with Basel II?"
- "No, Mr Bond - I expect you to die" |
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[big bun for the preceeding two annos] |
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They do inspect banks to make sure they are sticking to the rules. The problem comes when politicians decide that 1:35 is a good idea. Campaign contributions may have had something to do with it, but the point is that it was legal. If they decide that 1:35 is acceptable in future they will also deactivate or recalibrate any neural implants that impose inconvenient sanity on finance workers. |
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//"No, Mr Bond - I expect you to die"//
It should be "No, Mr Bond - I expect you to buy" |
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I think the recent scad of bad science ideas
around here has gone gaga. This one may take the
cake. Funny though. And tempting. |
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similar to a C.Anvil short-story in which the nobility wore implants which delivered pain when their subjects pushed their "I'm unhappy" buttons. |
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