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'Private Equity' analyzes the ethical and personal costs of a career in finance

'Private Equity' analyzes the ethical and personal costs of a career in finance

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February 26, 202410m 28s

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There's a moment in Carrie Sun's memoir, Private Equity, when she remembers trying to answer a text for her high-pressure hedge fund job while running on the treadmill. It ended poorly — and Sun says, looking back, it was a good metaphor for the toll her career was taking on her life. In today's episode, Sun speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about the moral, mental and physical sacrifices we normalize for work, and why maybe that's not such a good thing.


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