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CronoDAS comments on question: the 40 hour work week vs Silicon Valley? - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Florian_Dietz 24 October 2014 12:09PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 27 October 2014 10:43:23PM 1 point [-]

My brother used to do stock trading (in a small group) for Goldman Sachs before jumping ship for a hedge fund that offered him much more money. Of course, not everyone in finance does stock trading, so he might be seeing only a small part of what goes on...

Comment author: Lumifer 28 October 2014 03:03:28PM 2 points [-]

Right, so ask him about the finance industry (which is mostly banks, by the way) -- prop trading is only a very small corner of it...