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by RyanHamilton 3535 days ago
>> if they could, they'd work in a different industry

Imagine you make 10 times the national average salary

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But you live in an expensive place and pay a lot of tax.

Plus the politics in a shrinking industry, you need a big premium to suffer through it.

A lot of people who work in banks do not have a particular love of the industry, they're there because it's what paid well when they finished university.