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antiterra said it better than I could, but I had to downvote you. We're used to techie snobbishness all the time, but calling people whores for working in one sector instead of another is not only stupidly arrogant, it's offensive.

Would it be whoring if you took money from Zynga instead? Groupon? Facebook? Yelp? Or any number of other disreputable companies that have engaged in allegedly immoral/illegal behavior?

FWIW I don't even work in banking.

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It's to do with the attitude of people in banking specifically; that people are easily controlled with money, and those with the most money have the most power. And that's why I brought up prostitution in such a crude way; because it is a power relation that cuts through to things that make us human. It's hard work for the women involved in prostitution to mask that, to retain humanity in the face of their job, as intimate and naked as it is. Working for a banker, with their mindset and contempt for people, feels analogous - not quite as bad, but analogous.

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