my boss said he doesn’t personally post here but some others might. and my boss thinks it’s cool that I’m a leftist, he’s one too, apparently, and that a bunch of our coworkers are leftists. some of them might post here?? it’s a finance firm – the last place I’d expect this. how the fuck do they have a positive opinion of this place??
YOU HAVE TO TELL ME IF YOU POST HERE AND WHAT YOUR @ IS. THIS IS SO UNFAIR LEAVING ME ON THE HOOK LIKE THIS. DON’T MAKE ME POST PPB TO THE WORK SLACK AND SEE WHO LAUGHS.
(I use tree style tabs so they can read my tabs when I share my screen – I didn’t hide this place because who the fuck has heard of hexbear)
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ok maybe i’m a pessimist but this sounds like a warren voter to me
Warren hexbear poster? That seems less likely than a finance firm socialist somehow lol
I went to a Chapo live show once and saw a whole bunch of Beto bumper stickers that I don’t think were ironic
Eh, you’d be surprised. I know a few leftists working in fintech, it pays damn good and the marginal evil-utility of arbitrage or something is pretty low compared to the kind of shit they’d be enabling at FAANG.
It doesn’t surprise me, actually. I think people working in finance would know better than anyone else just how bullshit the whole system is.
I can’t remember where it was, but I was listening to an interview with a left-wing guy who worked for some sort of stock buying/trading company. He said his strategy was to just assume all the hype was bullshit and things were only going to get worse. Apparently he performed so much better than everyone else that his boss just assumed he was doing illegal insider-trading stuff.
Never trust anything a stock guy says to the public. Have you seen the stock market since post-2020 crash? Absurd gains
Many/most reputable places that do this kind of trading have fixed whole market exposure, either long only or long/short (and a lot are long/short). The idea being that since it’s mathematically impossible for the average hedge fund to beat the market in the long term by much (tbf, less so since the rise of index funds), they should at least be able to provide returns that aren’t correlated to the stock market, as any idiot can get correlated returns.
Besides, everyone knows that just because things are getting worse doesn’t mean number won’t go up - you’d typically trade on the belief that number go up in some more sophisticated way, perhaps by predicting what the fed will do to make sure number go up, or how the books will be cooked to make sure number go up.
This video?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ViY-zI3b5JQ
I think that’s the guy, though I heard of him via interview in someone else’s show. Can’t remember which podcast it was.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I know a friend who is a communist and organizes and they with no restraint worked on a project at a FAANG to allow the intelligence agency of another imperial core country to spy on their citizens
Also know an organizer who leads an org of ~70 people at a $XX billion dollar company making >1 mill per year lmao
When something pops off in a city like NYC though there are enough people active that aren’t even in orgs that they can make the police retreat, I have some hope for the future, a lot of young people got their first taste of a sort of action in 2020 and many are still down for the cause. The most serious revolutionaries aren’t going to talk about it much.
god damn maybe I should have just taken that fukken military contractor job I was offered if that’s where the bar is
Please don’t, Silicon Valley is just the biggest fucking meme in this world
