The populist inquisition
I realize that the hatred for Goldman and Wall Street is still seething but this is getting absurd.
Tony Manfred, a senior at Cornell and Associate Editor of The Cornell Daily Sun, threw a 784 word hissy fit bashing the bank and added:
“The bank, along with the rest of corporate America, pursues Cornell’s best and brightest — tabling at career fairs, holding information sessions and setting up shop in the narrow corridors of Barnes Hall. It vets and interrogates tests and examines, and eventually it leaves campus with a wish list of eager undergrads. A few months later, those same undergrads are paying for a few rounds of drinks at a celebratory Long Island iced tea night. And come summer, these undergrads have transformed into full-fledged Goldmanites — squeezing every drip of profit out of the rag that is America with conscious abandon — under the tragically correct assumption that the rest of us are, above all else, jealous of them.”
Manfred here wants to kick out GS from Cornell’s campus recruiting, saying:
“This must end. A corporation with Goldman’s track record of bubble-building and profiteering has no place on this campus.”
His Long Island iced tea hatred, closet communism, and overall misinformation aside, this wanton acrimony for Wall Street is a major blight for finance in general.
Thousands of people flock to Wall Street year after year, with most being the best and the brightest the top schools around the world. These people have worked hard, got good grades, and some, God forbid, sacrificed enjoying college to get where they are.
How many of them aspire to be the next Madoff? None.
Yet they are vilified and scorned as if they are.
“We need to come to terms with the fact that people who go to work for a greedy, criminal machine that has been consciously inflating economic bubbles and screwing over the public since the 1920s, are, by definition, greedy criminals. These people are our classmates, our sorority sisters, our best friends, but they are also bad people. To put it bluntly, they are assholes. Huge assholes. Assholes who are aware of the social and economic damage they will soon perpetuate, but don’t care.”
Huge assholes, assholes who pay far more taxes than you do, assholes who have donated far more time and money to charities and foundations than you have. Huge fucking assholes. And while we’re at it, can you explain to me how the banks created bubbles?
Unfortunately this populist mentality won’t be going away soon, and to see it in the Ivies isn’t reassuring.
Tomorrow I will probably meet another Tony, and I will not say sorry for my ambitions. I will not say sorry for wanting to work hard, and I will not say sorry for not wanting to be a fireman or a teacher.
What I will be sorry for, is him.
How about you guys? How will you handle a Tony?






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NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
This kid should have gone to
This kid should have gone to Oberlin...
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
happypantsmcgee wrote: This
This kid should have gone to Oberlin...
check mate
Where I unload on Twits and take verbal S***s
This dude is absolutely
This dude is absolutely wrong. But I can't help but wonder why so many people who don't work for Goldman care so furiously about them getting bashed. Yes, Wall Street is massively unpopular; yes, Goldman is the most unpopular firm on Wall Street. Wall Street isn't going anywhere, but it's also probably never going to be popular again, and that's just tough shit. If you want some love from a random dude on the street, go join the Peace Corps; the disdain of other people is just another sacrifice if you want to do finance.
People here seem to forget a little bit too often that working your ass off to get a sick job in finance is no more or less worthwhile than working your ass off to get a PhD in English or risking your life every day pulling complete strangers out of fires. You want to work in finance; cool. Other people don't; that's cool, too. But trust me, the firefighter doesn't give two shits what some GS dude thinks of him, and the would-be GS dude needs to get into the same mindset. If you're really that comfortable with and proud of your ambition, what the fuck do you care what everyone else thinks?
One of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.
2x2Matrix wrote: This dude is
This dude is absolutely wrong. But I can't help but wonder why so many people who don't work for Goldman care so furiously about them getting bashed. Yes, Wall Street is massively unpopular; yes, Goldman is the most unpopular firm on Wall Street. Wall Street isn't going anywhere, but it's also probably never going to be popular again, and that's just tough shit. If you want some love from a random dude on the street, go join the Peace Corps; the disdain of other people is just another sacrifice if you want to do finance.
People here seem to forget a little bit too often that working your ass off to get a sick job in finance is no more or less worthwhile than working your ass off to get a PhD in English or risking your life every day pulling complete strangers out of fires. You want to work in finance; cool. Other people don't; that's cool, too. But trust me, the firefighter doesn't give two shits what some GS dude thinks of him, and the would-be GS dude needs to get into the same mindset. If you're really that comfortable with and proud of your ambition, what the fuck do you care what everyone else thinks?
They care because if chicks go, "OH....You work for Goldman Sachs. I don't think I want to fuck you now." They won't want to work there.
This will never ever ever happen because girls go after money, but still, men who work at Goldman Sachs care what people think of them.
Quite personally, i get torn
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
wait, why are you following a
wait, why are you following a college news paper and when did college news papers become a viable source of news and opinions?
You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.
ibdafuture257 wrote: Quite
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
happypantsmcgee
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
Oops...I am truly ever so apologetic...I originally thought that this website was informal...I did not realize that I must reply to post's as if I was working on my graduate thesis...ever so sorry..please forgive my finite mind...
Also, thanks for your post; it was full of earth shattering knowledge...really it shook me at the core of my being...
ibdafuture257
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
Oops...I am truly ever so apologetic...I originally thought that this website was informal...I did not realize that I must reply to post's as if I was working on my graduate thesis...ever so sorry..please forgive my finite mind...
Also, thanks for your post; it was full of earth shattering knowledge...really it shook me at the core of my being...
Weren't you the one that posted about Hofstra's MBA program or something...just remember I want paper not plastic
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
happypantsmcgee
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
Oops...I am truly ever so apologetic...I originally thought that this website was informal...I did not realize that I must reply to post's as if I was working on my graduate thesis...ever so sorry..please forgive my finite mind...
Also, thanks for your post; it was full of earth shattering knowledge...really it shook me at the core of my being...
Weren't you the one that posted about Hofstra's MBA program or something...just remember I want paper not plastic
Having worked as a cashier, I always thought the paper or plastic line referred to method of payment, though it does work for bag type as well.
looking for that pick-me-up to power through an all-nighter?
happypantsmcgee
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
Oops...I am truly ever so apologetic...I originally thought that this website was informal...I did not realize that I must reply to post's as if I was working on my graduate thesis...ever so sorry..please forgive my finite mind...
Also, thanks for your post; it was full of earth shattering knowledge...really it shook me at the core of my being...
Weren't you the one that posted about Hofstra's MBA program or something...just remember I want paper not plastic
Another one of your earth shaking posts...please O wise one...tell me more...
Jerk-Off
ibdafuture257
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
Oops...I am truly ever so apologetic...I originally thought that this website was informal...I did not realize that I must reply to post's as if I was working on my graduate thesis...ever so sorry..please forgive my finite mind...
Also, thanks for your post; it was full of earth shattering knowledge...really it shook me at the core of my being...
Weren't you the one that posted about Hofstra's MBA program or something...just remember I want paper not plastic
Another one of your earth shaking posts...please O wise one...tell me more...
Jerk-Off
I happen to like LIBOR's stuff, but then again I didn't go to VCU. When I'm down in Richmond I sometimes see you kids shambling around, breathing out of your mouth, wearing your sister's jeans. Do you apply there or do they just ask you to make your mark in some gymnasium. You know, informally, so you aren't uncomfortable
Aggravate
Quite personally, i get torn down all the time because i want to be a fund manager one day (PE,HF or REPE), and quite honestly i could care less...people say that bankers (im using this as all of wall st) are the devil and that we (hopefully i will join the ranks one day lol) "rape and pillage" america..but this is not the case...where would the country be without bankers, without credit...lol...nowhere...even third world countries use the notion of credit and collateral when partaking in loans and such lol...bankers are a necessary evil...i dont see many folks tearing down the premed kids when according to a statistic i read a few days ago, most doctors just prescribe drugs they are getting paid to push by Big Pharma...but noooooooooooooo nobody talks about that...just attack the bankers...
dont even get me started on lawyers...smh..lol
This was written by a 12 year old that thought he was on AIM.
Oops...I am truly ever so apologetic...I originally thought that this website was informal...I did not realize that I must reply to post's as if I was working on my graduate thesis...ever so sorry..please forgive my finite mind...
Also, thanks for your post; it was full of earth shattering knowledge...really it shook me at the core of my being...
Weren't you the one that posted about Hofstra's MBA program or something...just remember I want paper not plastic
Another one of your earth shaking posts...please O wise one...tell me more...
Jerk-Off
I happen to like LIBOR's stuff, but then again I didn't go to VCU. When I'm down in Richmond I sometimes see you kids shambling around, breathing out of your mouth, wearing your sister's jeans. Do you apply there or do they just ask you to make your mark in some gymnasium. You know, informally, so you aren't uncomfortable
Dude, don't shit on him...he be da future...
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
And we just find new ways to
And we just find new ways to lower the bar....
Hey Hosers, Shaddap already!
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somebody photoshop loyd
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happypantsmcgee
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People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people Jeremy
ibdafuture257
Funny how the Cornell kid's
Jorgé wrote: lol i call bs
blastoise wrote: Jorgé
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people Jeremy
first time poster, long time
greenspanwingspan wrote: What
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^^^ Brutal.
Aggravate wrote: Side comment
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
I reiterate my comment from
Enjoy
lol
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people Jeremy
haha
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A lot of people do certain things to add days to their life. I do things to add life to my days.
Thank you Mr. Bigglesworth,
One of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.