The trading game | LSE Event
Join us at this event where Gary Stevenson will talk about his new book, The Trading Game: A Confession.
Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of east London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger. Then he won a competition run by a bank: 'The Trading Game'. The prize: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon you're the bank's most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day. Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all.
But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer - and, as the economy starts slipping off a precipice, your own sanity starts slipping with it? You want to stop, but you can't. Because nobody ever leaves.
Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything? Gary's book is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
Speakers:
Gary Stevenson
Discussant:
Rebecca Gowland
Chair:
Professor Mike Savage
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Gary has one of the most important messages for society today. I fully support him in his mission.
Glad Gary can show the LSE the real world of economics
I'm surprised at how few views and comments there are for this conversation. This is a very important topic.
I honestly doubt this will get many views. I love Gary and the way he sees the world. He's a realist that sees the world for exactly the way it is and doesn't paint it in rosey colours. People don't wanna hear what he has to say as they are too ignorant to care imo.
Really excellent interviewing from Rebecca Gowland here. Having listened to the audiobook, and it's interesting she brought up Harry Sanbi(?) - Harry just missed his Mum, a lot. I hope in the 8 years that passed between he and Gary parting ways, his life improved.
So happy to see this conversation took place!
🏆 EXCELLENT! 'Nothing wrong with a BMX.' ❤ So real & true - To that guy - You got into Cambridge off your own back mate - In my book that makes you more worthy not less. Well Gary, you're really giving it a damned good shot, mate - Your book published, in Hansard FOREVER & drawing an impressive crowd at the LSE where, hopefully, many more will carry your message to the financial institutions around the globe fairly soon. Really appreciate what you're doing & what you're trying to achieve.
Gary is the 🐐
He's great because he cares about the poor
Thanks guys this was the best distillation of Gary’s ideas I have come across so thank you ….. TBH when I read the book and listen to the audiobook I am reminded of Marvin the paranoid android in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ….. and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the same book. “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Milliways is built on a ruined planet and depicts the instant the Universe ends. Guests enjoy a meal as they watch the Universe explode.” Douglas Adams The hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
"Most of the problems were concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper"
I’ve just finished his book. Good read. Slightly worrying about the students in that audience who might be there to learn how to avoid losing their £££.! The self interest of the human species is a tough nut to crack. Especially as it’s not only genetic if you believe Darwin but it’s engrained into us from birth. And some ppl always take things too far. I’m working class and older now and it’s become obvs to me that the rich have a maniacal fear of losing money as it’s tied in with that position of power. Nothing will change that now, unless we change the status of money.Has Gary read Animal Farm. He’s met some of the animals. I do wish him luck and watch his you tube channel and hope he becomes a major influencer, he’s learned a lot.
A great talk filled to the brim with insights and knowledge.
He tells it as good he writes it!
“The economy is not numbers it's people”
I was at the Dublin book launch. Great to hear more insight from Gary. Good interview from that woman.
I’ve worked at Bloomberg for 15 years, he’s right Weath tax 💯
Good, open discussion! The point that most struck me was the fact that the UK economy had gone from about +700 billion to -1000 billion! Is this true? What happened to noblesse oblige; where the very rich took care of the very poor? We had communities like Port Sunlight!
Amazing talk.
Go on Gazza, much respect from Redbridge
Someone send this guy a clarinet, the point he makes about cultural captal is 100% valid, but I cant help but but think, he keeps mentioning this one example over and over (yes ive watched lots and lots of Gary's videos) maybe deep down he really wants to play the clarinet at the Royal Albert Hall.
I've asked this before in other places but Ive never had a satisfactory answer, but what can somone do with £10 million that someone with £5 million can't do? we need to find a way saying "those with broadest shoulds should carry the heaviest burden" without sounding like we're punishing people for earning lots of money.
I like Bex. My man on the left has some excellent expressions. Gary is such a good guy. Thanks for uploading the video.
🤦 trim the first 4:45 👎
suffered emotional damage coming to this event thinking it was going to be about trading card games and getting smacked in the face with our economic system instead. why does the poster even make it look like a deck of cards????? there isn't even a reference to tcgs!!! the talk was compelling though so i stayed.
Pretty sure the cover is a deck of cards because it was via a card game that he won in which he got a job as a trader at Canary Wharf
Dude just read his book and you’ll understand 😂
@@endxofxeternity no im just a little guy im too dumb to read books
@@travis7573 listen to the audiobook then 😁
The historical beginning of capitalism came from the confiscation of land owned by churches and monasteries, and the resulting loss of the farmers' common world. Since the process of global alienation as Hannah Arendt calls it is the history of capitalism, the subject of wealth inequality as a result of capitalism is also those who act only with fragmented concerns of their own. In the current financialized capitalism, the winner of inequality is nothing more than a gambling addict and the loser is the worker. Personality and democracy, in which uniqueness and pluralism represent teleology, are nothing more than bystanders to wealth inequality. The only solution is to restore the lost worldness of workers who are victims of inequality. Arendt claims the victory of working animals. Nothing is more political than the one taking care of necessity in sorrow.
Curious as to why Gary is sitting like that
Because he’s the goat 🐐
I'd be sitting like that if I grew up in East London sleeping on a broken mattress for the first 20 years of my life.
Cos it's comfy?
@ym276 so you watch the video and how Gary sits is the thing you're curious about? Some self reflection would be useful for you I think
Because he doesn't give af about elitism. He's from the exact same area I'm from, Ilford. No one cares about what people think of us, he live and do as we want, not caring about others opinions. Did you even listen to what he was talking about??
"We need to get the rich to sell their asset otherwise the poor will never get to buy those asset". This sounds like the mentality of someone who is poor. We should be focusing to increase the size of the economy/pie instead of fighting one another for the same pie.
Smashed QE money printing forever more 🙏 The problem is the government will do more crap with this more money you want to give them. 🫨 You watched that water going down the drain and said NO ! 👊👏👏😠 Take that money, invest it and build it, we need jobs and innovation 👊