Most Mail and Sun readers, the headlines of which have been screaming ‘greed’ at BA’s pilots on £150k a year, don’t begrudge footballers their salaries of £150k per week. Doctors who reduce their hours to avoid huge tax bills on their pensions are called selfish; yet the boss of, for instance, Severn Trent earns £2m a year. I’d bet that, if your plane’s in turbulence over the alps or you need your appendix out pretty quick, you’d pay them whatever they want and wouldn’t want Ronaldo flying the plane or wielding the scalpel.
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Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
