“The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective.“ Funny and insightful. ♻️ americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/wester
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I was tempted to write an analysis of his GSB Touchy-Feely experience in terms of your sociopaths/clueless/losers framework, but decided that explaining what was actually going on would get too many people too upset.
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The author is clearly smart enough to comment on sjw culture, but chose not to, so it made me suspect he was playing up the naive-foreigner act a little too much for effect, like Poirot does in his mysteries. Still, it was funny :)
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What’s masterful is that he’s equally pouring scorn on financial industry psychopathy and SJW idiocy, while being sufficiently indirect that a casual reader could miss either or both
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I doubt though that people at Goldman wouldn't recognize the symmetry between win-for-wrong-reasons/lose-for-right-reasons. Even average poker player tells me that. I'd guess that angle is either fiction, or he misread a don't-talk-about-it norm for obliviousness.
Yes, that struck me as dubious too. Although I can imagine a scenario in which management at Goldman might not understand the basics of what traders do, and are promoted for being effective salesmen instead
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I don’t know how factual ’s accounts of his experiences are, but they are consistent with that model

