Are we all reading the same article? When I click on the link, title of the article is “Deaths Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace.” Where does the article talk about schools?
Bankers, doctors, lawyers, and even small business owners work gruesome hours. The reason IB get a lot more bad press is they get paid a lot more. When I used to work on deals, the lawyers stayed up as late as we did and their lawyers were no better. It was the case for accounting firms that had to verify numbers. But rarely do any of those people commit suicide because intensity of work. This young man in the article had a history of substance abuse. He probably should never have gone into such high intensity business.