Comments on: What the New Yorker finds to be “unlikely” https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/new-yorker/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 29 May 2014 14:37:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ed https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/new-yorker/comment-page-1/#comment-287813 Thu, 29 May 2014 14:37:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45611#comment-287813 “Before starting his own fund, he worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley….” How ironic, this is one of the guys who created the banking mess and he’s now a darling of the environmentalists and the Democrats. All because he’s got money.

]]> By: BJC https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/new-yorker/comment-page-1/#comment-287766 Thu, 29 May 2014 11:39:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45611#comment-287766 I think the surprising thing for New Yorker readers is not that a rich person with leisure is an “environmental leader,” but that a

1) person with impeccable Upper East Side establishment credentials
2) who did not immediately lean on the family trust fund after college to start “doing good,” but instead got a “real job” for a couple decades
3) in “finance,” which even though everyone works in it in NYC, we assume means you’re a right-wing Gordon Gekko.

started doing environmental advocacy. The assumption is that at least one of these is not the case, e.g.:
– Al Gore (Tennessean/DC native; not a New Yorker)
– RFK Jr. (trust fund advocacy, no “real job”)
– Any tech millionaire (probably West Coast, but if not, not in the “evil” that is “finance”)

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