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In Stendhal’s Red and blackA book that is never far from me, they are afraid of two careers. The first is the army. The second is the priesthood. The setting is the restoration of Burbon France, but it could be almost anywhere in the West, almost any time until the dawn of the industry, such was the importance of these vocations for the national order.
In our world, two ruling careers are not harder to appoint. It’s technology and finance, T -shirt and Giletwho first rejected the most respected graduate students. It is a technology and finance whose executives have been interviewed for thinking about politics and life. As the Google Office in King’s Cross is closer to the completion, London, an ancient financial center, is a useful place where these different clans can be evaluated.
And learn to prefer, on average, the Finance Society. There is a side in that company that faces a client-večer, sales calls in silver language-which perceive minimal goal. In most of the technology, “client” is a huge and distant public. So there is no such practice.
Keep in mind that, although world financial centers are almost all urban, Tech often chooses a low density setting, such as the Santa Clara or FENS Valley. Even Bengalur is an Indian garden city. Some of this is a historical accident. But this is also the result, and perhaps the cause of the technological social difference. I don’t have to stay here in the Ultra-Indidialist political turnaround sector. Or Andrew Huberman under the leadership for health, whose logical end point is scandalized deviation from physical contact. Even on the warmer side of technology, effective altruism and people who suffer from doing good, there is a trace of Beatrice webb about the approach to humanity, as something for help, not. Real or potential achievements of technology on behalf of all of us could be reduced from finance. But over the drink? Give me a FX sales store.
Another thing. Finance has more – don’t laugh too much now – humility. Precisely because banking has a particularly bad name, at least post-lehman, at least outside America, his practitioners have to tread these days. The people who are in the mood of the world to hate teach a kind of charm. (Because of this, the biggest snobs in Britain are almost never etonians.) Tech has not yet had 2008, and maybe never. It is high by itself to a certain extent that it is easier to respect from afar than to be around.
“Modest”, of course, does not mean interesting. Not even “nap”. Since I have to think of ideas for life, I will deal with a lot of a conversation that throws Eurek for a moment. So which side is the more stimulating company? The raw power of processing the technological minds I come across leaves me as I stand. But my test – am I still thinking about discussing the house house? – Their more frequently encounters from bankers or hedgies or less gilded professions. One of the problems is the impatience of the technological world with history, which is inevitable when the largest companies are not long before the millennium. The result is fixation with transient events and “trends” that someone with wider lenses could be recognized as a foam.
Another conversational aisle is that undergraduate contradiction that you see worse than the local cryptocurrency to the billionaire class. Your brothers’ finance is hardly immune. (“Putin just wants a warm water port.”) But something about belonging to the profession in establishing will tend to take off the edge. The archetypical technological genius – incredibly credible, but somehow as excessive to impress as an autodidact – must be special for the young industry.
All ethnographic observations about these two tribes must be qualified, of course. First of all, technology and finances can be difficult to separate. (Where should we handle Bankman-fried?). Still, there is a lot of change in the world of work since I have entered it a relative decline against each other as a prestigious industry. If all the finances for retaining is a social edge, Tech will consider him a trivial deficit, in addition to payment and power, if it is even most difficult to overcome.
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