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Don’t Expect Morality from a Faceless Behemoth That Exists Purely For Profit
Alex Preston – The Independent, 19 Mar 2012

A Rolling Stone article about Goldman Sachs published in 2010 described the former investment bank as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”. While Rolling Stone wins plaudits for the striking metaphor, Smith’s letter will do more damage. It is the geeky earnestness, the sense of a good man pushed over the edge by a “toxic and destructive” working environment…

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