Gave up after page two.

wow. what a craptastical load of fail. reads like one of those fake letters in Hustler.
oh, and by the way, Buenos Aires sites on the shores of the Rio de la Plata and is miles and miles away from the ocean. the farking thing is so wide you cant see the other side. if they had bothered to pull their heads out of their coke sodden asses they might have noticed BA is a pretty cool town full of really wonderful people.

What he wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in his rambling, incoherent writings did he approach anything even close to an interesting story. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having read it. He is awarded no points, and may God have mercy on his soul.

Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

You draw this conclusion because everybody has been noting how TFA was a pile of incoherent crap?

Having been visting FARK for 5+ years I have never read anything here more pointless than this link.

Subby? What's the point of it? Some rich young guy gets fired and pisses away money in Argentina?

bfd.

Sherry Bobbins approves.

If there was ever a time to actually read a Playboy article, this is it

So then there's never a time to actually read a Playboy article.

Haven't been to Argentina. Have been to a lot of other places, including several where the dollar goes a long, long way (or did when I was there). Here's my take-away:

This guy was very invested in the US economy, and when it started falling apart, he was smart enough to look at emerging economies, developing countries, and so on. Seriously, I've thought of doing something similar.

However, he wasn't smart enough to rein in his spending. If you're burning through 10K a month, and you all of a sudden only need to burn, say, 2K a month, the correct answer is NOT to spend the other 8K on hookers and blow.

I'm more at the 2K a month level in the US, and even so I know friends other places who, on one quarter as much, have a nice apartment, car, etc. Hell, one girl I know just told be she's saved up and bought land - and she makes as much in a month as I make in 2-3 days.

Seems to me he got what he had coming.

Great article. I kinda disliked all those wall street financial guys before. Now I farking hate them. Get some real problems and don't cry to me about partying in South America for 2 years while not doing a damned thing to retrain yourself. Get a goddamned electrician degree you useless twat and actually work for a living.

The headline is a lie.

Man, I was wondering if it was just me who hated this article. I couldn't make any sense out of it, or understand why I should care.

Apparently, no one else cares, either. I feel better now.

hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

Yeah, strangely enough there are still some people left in the states with some sort of unwholesome obsession with making stuff and being useful. Doancha just hate farkers like that? I guess they haven't heard the news that the world is "post-industrial" now. Cuz food and stuff just manifests itself out of the aether.

I feel like I've been rickrolled.

SupremeLeader: The same idiots who think than Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman are role models to emulate got fired due to the free market forces?

Funny stuff. Funny stuff.

It reminds me of an engineer at work who described himself as a "Republican with libertarian leanings" and who was fanatically for the free market, Ayn Rand, and all that jazz.

When the inevitable layoffs came, he was the first to be fired and security escorted him out.

Those who live by "Atlas Shrugged", die by "Atlas Shrugged."

I worked for an engineer who said that every problem could be solved by the market, but that government muddled everything.

The company received lots of local taxpayer money and rent subsidies, as well as state grants.

(That's different.)

hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

Worse: pink collar.

I would happily cut the subject of the article.

I think subby was the author.

That story said things but never really went anywhere. I still don't know how babby is formed.

The story went better when I read the first couple paragraphs then added "I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought, naw, forget it, yo holmes to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and said to the cabbie "Yo holmes smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air."

General Motors makes cars. They may be crappy, but at least they actually make something. Nobody on Wall Street ever made anything, fark them.

So happy that douchebags are now our main export to Argentina.

/not really

Douche and his douche friends spend tons of money they don't have and really douche it up. He searches in vain for his soul but quickly realizes that he doesn't have one--and never will. Essentially confirming what everyone already knows about New Yorkers and/or any banker anywhere.

I remember taking a writing class 10 years ago, where the professor said "If you want to write a story that will keep people's attention, your character has to be either sympathetic or fascinating"

Clearly, the writer of this story did not have the same professor.

atomic-age: hnlzero: Hmm, all these farkers commenting seem to be either blue collar or low paying IT.

Worse: pink collar.


And you can tell this how?

BlankReg: I don't get it. This guy claims to love the "entrepreneurial spirit" of investment banking (forgiving, for the moment that there's nothing entrepreneurial about working for a huge farking mega-finance firm), loses his job, and all he can think to do is whine and escape to some banana republic where he can live out his adolescent fantasy of partying like it's 1989? I don't believe his cover story for a second-- "emerging markets" my arse. If there's no credit, there's no emerging market-- especially for snot-nosed ex-pats.

My wife actually hit it on the head. She said, "It's a Hemmingway story."

I-banking actually is rather entrepreneurial. Unless you're in the business, it's difficult to explain.

/institutional salesman