Joris Luyendijk is a dutch anthropologist with a mission (for the UK newspaper The Guardian): he’s “going native in the world of finance“, by listening and talking to people from the City of London about their job in the financial district. My interest in the subject shouldn’t come as a surprise, since I work for a bank in times where the “world of finance” hits the newspaper headlines every day.
The list of interviews Luyendijk has published since September is getting longer and longer, of course. What strikes me most is the cynicism that can be read in the words of many of the interviewees. Caring about your own money, that seems to be the only requirement in order to work in the London finance sector – or perhaps it’s that what you need to survive more than a few months or years in that environment… No wonder the British government is under heavy pressure to not regulate all that goes on in the City!
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