I'm not an American and I have never knowingly encoutered it, but I always admired two friends of mine who work in finance for their industriousness. They would

I'm not an American and I have never knowingly encoutered it, but I always admired two friends of mine who work in finance for their industriousness. They would work 12 hours, then take out some Asian client to a strip club, partying all night, followed by another 12 hour work day (they keep a change of clothes at their office). I naively just assumed they were tremendously dedicated and driven personalities. One of them fell uncontious and was diagnosed with burnout a couple of months back at age 33. I thought this was just from working too hard, performance enhancing drugs never even crossed my mind. Needless to say the movie was a pretty shocking revelation for me.