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Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal
  04/18/15
you know, this thing, called risk aversion.
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If you're balling out in finance, why the fuck would you go ...
Stubborn razzmatazz hospital
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Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal
  04/18/15
Lol u faggot, maybe they should go work for the faggot gover...
Stubborn razzmatazz hospital
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Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal
  04/18/15
Are you a lawyer?
Stubborn razzmatazz hospital
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Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal
  04/18/15
Because you are talking about fucking old people and because...
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Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal
  04/18/15
People started to realize that going into politics via law w...
Histrionic Pistol
  04/18/15
And boomers made biglaw money while paying shit for tuition ...
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  04/18/15
process-oriented dorks who don't like actually getting stuff...
Jet stead
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Date: April 18th, 2015 3:33 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal



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Date: April 18th, 2015 3:34 PM
Author: shaky headpube nursing home

you know, this thing, called risk aversion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27713446)



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Date: April 18th, 2015 3:54 PM
Author: Stubborn razzmatazz hospital

If you're balling out in finance, why the fuck would you go into govt?

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Date: April 18th, 2015 8:56 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal



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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:33 PM
Author: Stubborn razzmatazz hospital

Lol u faggot, maybe they should go work for the faggot government then.

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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:33 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal



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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:34 PM
Author: Stubborn razzmatazz hospital

Are you a lawyer?

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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:40 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal



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Date: April 18th, 2015 9:09 PM
Author: aphrodisiac pearly foreskin

Because you are talking about fucking old people and because pre-2008 it was conventional wisdom that people who are interested in "politics" should go to law school. In the 1990s and before it was even more a part of our cultural mythology...

It takes a long time to climb the govt ladder, so we are mostly talking about boomers and older when we talk about senior government officials.

Moreoever, before the 1980s, it was not prestigious to work in finance, so strivers didn't go after it. That isn't to say that it wasn't dominated by patricians--it was. But, as anyway who has been in the money business for a long time would tell you, most people in money management and sell-side finance were dumb people from rich families who couldn't get into prestigious law schools. That's sort of what the MBA was for--think slightly less wealthy versions of George W. Bush.

I'm sort of an overstating, but basically it was full of complacent old-money types. Over the last 30 years that has obviously changed...

There are plenty of GS people in gov't but that's an idiosyncratic case.

But when you're talking about sr. gov't officials, you're talking about Boomers, and the most prestigious thing for a Boomer striver to do in the 70s/80s was go the legal route.

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Date: April 18th, 2015 9:18 PM
Author: Carmine marvelous sandwich doctorate

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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:27 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle spot sneaky criminal



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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:29 PM
Author: Histrionic Pistol

People started to realize that going into politics via law was flame because law itself is a flame profession full of NOJERB.

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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:35 PM
Author: tantric goyim famous landscape painting

And boomers made biglaw money while paying shit for tuition to get there.

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Date: April 18th, 2015 9:14 PM
Author: Jet stead

process-oriented dorks who don't like actually getting stuff done

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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:33 PM
Author: tantric goyim famous landscape painting

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