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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
15 Nov 2017 Conversations with Tyler Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live)
“One, you worked in the financial sector for the Bank of New York for a while, I believe until 2009.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 15 Nov 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…No, it’s not. As I said, Marxism means class versus class, not nation versus nation. In India, there are poor people and rich people. And in America, there are poor people and rich people. Why is it some sort of defection if I came here? I came here not to become a capitalist. You’ve had two jobs here, at least two jobs. One, you worked in the financial sector for the Bank of New York for a while, I believe until 2009. Now you’re a conductor of subway trains for the MTA in New York City. Which of those two jobs have you enjoyed more? I would say MTA job. In Bank of New York, I was making much more money. Even in 2009, I was making almost three times what I make in MTA. Then I have unlimited sick leave and personal days and five weeks’ vacation and stock options and things like that. But the people are really so boring and uncosmopolitan. They are such narrow-minded people. I had this figurine of Darwin on my desk, and this guy was glaring at me because he’s a Catholic.…
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