CarwilBJ's Twitter Archive—№ 20,123

Karen Ho: Anthropologists who study finance and Wall Street face a challenge to also tell the story of how financialization is changing everyday life.
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Wall Street has insulated itself from critique, even analysis by portraying itself as complex, and therefore the domain only of finance employees, "the smartest guys in the room."
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 1 Favorite 2019 Feb 22 Mood 0

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But, Karen Ho, argues, financialization is actually constitutive of, or at least transfroming the structure of the everyday economy
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Karen Ho: Wall Street defines itself as a particular kind of meritocracy, that merges intellectual competence and "primitive" drive and aggression as its ideal.
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets 2019 Feb 22 Mood 0

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Lew George: "By and large the people on the [Wall] Street are superior to their clients in an almost evolutionary sense."
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Feb 22 Mood +2 🙂

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Banker interviewed on This American Life: "Because I'm smarter than the average person … 95% of the population doesn't have that common sense" thisamericanlife.org/415/crybabies
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Wall Street values: self-defines as an elite that's allowed to break the rules, and sees regulators as slow and stupid.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Feb 22 Mood -2 🙁