Greed is still good. You may have thought the mantra of the Thatcher era s City bankers had fallen out of fashion, but the BBC s 2020 drama Industry proved otherwise
In 2013, a Bank of America intern in London was found dead in a shower after working 72 hours straight. The 21-year-old, Moritz Erhardt, was one week from the end of his probationary period. Noting that Erhardt had suffered from epilepsy, a coroner’s inquest stopped short of blaming his employer. Anyone familiar with the way investment banking attracts ambitious young people and hazes them through hierarchical and status-conscious workplaces may have come to his own conclusions. But values differ. Rather than the company exploiting his son, Erhardt’s father told a reporter, Moritz had been “exploiting himself.”