It's a cognitive bias that kicks in when your monthly salary is involved, as succinctly noted in 1935 by Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to under

It's a cognitive bias that kicks in when your monthly salary is involved, as succinctly noted in 1935 by Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"