Wannabe Gordon Gekkos

Are you missing the point by idolizing them?

Every year, thousands of impressionable young people watch movies about Wall Street and decide they want to grow up to be just like the expensively dressed cokeheads they see on-screen. Directors, meanwhile, insist that the last thing they wanted was for audiences to look up to their characters. Here at Jacobin, we believe in building […]

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