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)

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Warren hexbear poster? That seems less likely than a finance firm socialist somehow lol

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        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.

        • HamManBad [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          I was a Ron Paul loving, fed-obsessed teenager. Reading a ton about economics and finance is what got me here, plus the post-Trump vibe check

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        Gary Stevenson became top trader in the world at one point by realising that capitalism is a shit show and betting on crisis after crisis. Has some good YouTube videos and I think it's publishing a book this year.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Never trust anything a stock guy says to the public. Have you seen the stock market since post-2020 crash? Absurd gains

        • Wheaties [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          he had already left the industry by the time of the interview, but fair. second hand anecdotes should be treated as amusing fiction at best

        • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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          11 months ago

          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.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      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 shrug-outta-hecks

      Also know an organizer who leads an org of ~70 people at a $XX billion dollar company making >1 mill per year lmao

        • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          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.

      • Sinistar
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        11 months ago

        god damn maybe I should have just taken that fukken military contractor job I was offered if that's where the bar is

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          Please don't, Silicon Valley is just the biggest fucking meme in this world

          • Sinistar
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            11 months ago

            just being cheeky, my current job makes some guy I don't know rich but at least I don't have murdered kids in Gaza on my conscience.

    • edge [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Could be, but what Warren voter thinks Hexbear is cool?