Summary
In this book, (Dutch at the moment) Simon van Teutem shows how big companies recruit the smartest people – and what social consequences this has.
When Morgan Stanley intern Simon van Teutem’s hair falls onto his keyboard at the end of a long working day, he asks himself: what am I doing here? Like many other ambitious students, he wants to change the world. And yet he works late into the night for a bank. No world peace, cultured meat and climate breakthroughs, but Excel sheets, conference calls and business class flights. How did he end up here? In conversations with dozens of fellow students, bankers, lawyers and consultants, Simon van Teutem reconstructs how idealistic young people swim into the trap of big capital. The result is a candid insight into the world of big money, a mirror for everyone who is looking for meaning in work, and an urgent call to education, NGOs and the government to prevent the waste of talent.
