All That You Desire

All That You Desire: Get It All In An Era Of Low Density Hope was a drift through Wall Street, in the guise of a business seminar on desire.

Participants were driven by limo to Wall Street and were given a guided tour of capitalism’s most iconic sites while discussing the merits of getting everything you want. We told stories, played games and immersed ourselves in the locations of unabashed desire.

One of the things this environment teaches us (if we listen to it) is that the abstractions of the financial industry can also have a social function. Unmoored from our old moral codes by these abstractions, we are free to want, to get, and in turn, to want more. 

What would happen if everyone thought like investment bankers? 

Here are some lessons from the tour:

1. Abstract your desires
2. Live with contradictions
3. Become formless
4. Go into debt (and call it “leverage”)