rant · moment 6 of 27
The Bank of America Green Beret's Death and Reading His Old Wall Street Rant
from Eurovision & Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tart Movie | The Tim Dillon Show #392 · #392
4 min
Tim discusses a 35-year-old Bank of America banker and former Green Beret who died after working extreme hours, then reads a years-old piece he wrote defending Wall Street's brutal work culture after a Goldman Sachs intern's death.
- Tim introduces a 35-year-old Green Beret who died at Bank of America after working 100 hours a week for several weeks.
- He reads from an old piece he wrote defending Wall Street's hardcore culture when a Goldman Sachs intern jumped out a window.
- Goldman Sachs banned all-nighters after interns died, which Tim critiques as coddling in a competitive financial culture.
- Finance workers chose extreme wealth over becoming teachers; the grueling process is worth the reward, Tim argues.
- Wall Street's shift from cocaine-snorting alpha males in the '80s to Adderall-eating nerds has made it weaker and more complaint-prone.
- Tim frames finance workers as soldiers in economic war, claiming the country has criminalized success and catered to weakness.
- He advocates for working young finance people to the brink of insanity as necessary preparation against China's competition.
- People enter finance to avoid becoming janitors; if they fail and jump from windows, that's preferable to never having a luxury apartment.
- This rant was written around 2015 or 2016, establishing it's not a new position for Tim.
Goldman SachsBank of AmericaWall Streetinvestment banking culture