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[[File:BB.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Emmanuel [[Goldman]] yesterday. I mean [[Goldstein]]]] | [[File:BB.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Emmanuel [[Goldman]] yesterday. I mean [[Goldstein]]]] | ||
}}For all its delusions of fairness, enlightenment, openness to challenge and new ideas, [[employee survey]]s and so on, do not believe that your employer — if it has any significance in the financial services industry — is anything other than an oppressive Marxist regime. Supply, demand, freedom of expression, fairness, democracy, transparency — these are accoutrements of an [[anarcho-syndicalist commune]]. [[Investment bank]]s like to believe they have these qualities — they certainly hold them dear — but this is a famous misconception. The nearest account to the inner workings of an investment bank you’re likely to see | }}For all its delusions of fairness, enlightenment, openness to challenge and new ideas, [[employee survey]]s and so on, do not believe that your employer — if it has any significance in the financial services industry — is anything other than an oppressive Marxist regime. Supply, demand, freedom of expression, fairness, democracy, transparency — these are accoutrements of an [[anarcho-syndicalist commune]]. [[Investment bank]]s like to believe they have these qualities — they certainly hold them dear — but this is a famous misconception. The nearest account to the inner workings of an investment bank you’re likely to see — albeit without out the sex, however joyless and mechanical its depiction may be — is {{author|George Orwell}}’s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''. | ||
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