7 ms·
So many of the comments are acting as though the underling employee actually is of a different class. I'd bet anything this young person is used to having his
by smeej 3y ago
So many of the comments are acting as though the underling employee actually is of a different class.
I'd bet anything this young person is used to having his family name make him welcome at any table he wishes to join, even in the Hamptons. He's on the well-worn path through a brief stint as a junior analyst before he's running some bank or hedge fund somewhere and the CEO of GS hesitates to approach his table.
This isn't the action of someone either boldly or naively misunderstanding his place. This is the action of someone who has grown up knowing his place is wherever he wishes it to be.
- flandish 3y agoClass is not salary or wealth it is position in the hierarchy of the means of production.
- steveBK123 3y agoYou just made up a scenario that has a less than 50% probability of being true, in order to.. come to the defense of a CEO worth $100M+ ? LOL cmon man.
- ipaddr 3y agoI believe part of that is true based on the location and ivy league background but also the ceo has disdain for lower ranked employees appearing in his bubble and daring to appear on the same level
- triceratops 3y agoIdk that it was a defence of the CEO. Whatever class the analyst belongs to or thinks they belongs to, the CEO's behavior was clearly out of proportion.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoI don't really care too much about what class X is considered, but it sure it weird trying to frame a 23YO making 200k out of college in the same sorts of language used to describe people on minimum wage barely affording rent. Do people really think the "middle class" is dead? I feel middle class is an apt descriptor for someone who is living comfortably but also still needs to work to maintain their lifestyle.
- smeej 3y agoHow is this a defense of the CEO? The CEO comes out looking not just like an ass, but an ignorant one. When someone acts as entitled to be where they are and do what they do as that junior analyst to that CEO, it's because their life experience so far has told them, consistently, that they have every right to. It even mentions that he points out his other associates. He's acting like he's meeting someone who's, at best, an equal, because from his perspective, he is.