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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are people in here acting like making money isn't a desirable goal? FYI if you said something like that, you MIGHT want to check your privilege. The only people who say money doesn't matter are people who grew up with it and can't imagine life any other way.

These days, most highly educated professionals are expected to work AT LEAST 50 hours a week but usually more. I don't know about you, but if I'm going to spend 10 hours a day at work no matter what, I'd rather make the 500k + (extremely hefty bonus) salary rather than the 50-250k  salary. [/quote]
You act like the people on Wall Street are breaking the cycle of poverty or something. Um, I mean maybe there's some of those, but let's be real. The vast majority of people on WS grew up perfectly comfortable.[/quote]

Not necessarily. Anecdotally, that was not my experience. My experience is that people who are hungry for money tend to be those who did not grow up with much.[/quote]

The only people who were willing to work 70-80 hours for the long term grew up poor. Because only people who didn't have money thought it was worth it to burn their youth like that. [/quote]

No, I have a relative doing this at great expense to himself and his family.  We grew up solidly middle class.  He's addicted to the prestige and doesn't know what else to do with himself.  It's very sad. [/quote]

For the set of people who have the ability to make it to Wall Street, middle class is poor. Completely different reference point. [/quote]

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