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But I don’t want to work in the City! E’ con slogan come questi che il servizio orientamento dell’Università di Cambridge cerca di combattere la pesante influenza delle società di consulting e delle banche di investimento nella selezione della giovane forza lavoro. In questo articolo Monbiot si interroga sul perché i migliori laureati siano risucchiati in certi ambienti lavorativi e sulle conseguenze negative di tale processo.

Why did they not escape, when they perceived that they were being dragged away from their dreams? I have come to see the obscene hours some new recruits must work – sometimes 15 or 16 a day – as a form of reorientation, of brainwashing. You are deprived of the time, sleep and energy you need to see past the place into which you have been plunged. You lose your bearings, your attachments to the world you inhabited before, and become immersed in the culture that surrounds you. Two years of this and many are lost for life.

 

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