Think how the body-piercing favoured by punk-rockers lost its power to shock after young bankers started sporting discreet earrings with their pinstriped suits.
"People like me may be making a difference in a small way," Jan McCourt, a onetime investment banker now running his own 40-hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare breeds.
In order to avoid separation of the sake of the families of migrants, immigration law has been approved by the families of immigrant counterparts, the provisions of special preferential treatment.
Critics, however, fault the industry for being too tight-fisted - no matter how much bankers insist that demand is anemic, especially from the most creditworthy borrowers.
In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans.