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“The [mortgage] traders performed astonishing feats of gluttony never before seen at Solomon. […] And the fatter they became, the more they seemed to loathe skinny people. _No hipocrisy here! We are proud to look precisely as we are!_ They joked how the thin government traders who ran triathlons on weekends still couldn’t make any more money during the week, which wasn’t entirely accurate.”

“[…] if your sense of self-worth is morbidly wrapped up in your financial success you probably believe you deserve everything you get. You take it as a reflection of something grand inside you. You acquire gravitas, and project it like a cologne [...]”.