>Your finance industry stereotypes are about 30 years out of date.
Not as blatant as the "golden age", perhaps, but it seems "hookers and blow" still figure in the lifestyle. A former hedge fund trader published a book a couple years ago detailing how his company (within the last decade) plied clients with prostitutes and a wide array of illegal narcotics:
> The excesses of 1980s New York investment banking as captured best (and with just a dose of hyperbole) by Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho may be long gone in the US...
The first link I provided is about a book by an insider that details these excesses occurring in the 2000s.
According to one tip the SEC received in 2007 about Galleon: "Prostitution is rampant for executives visiting Galleon. You will find that the Super Bowl parties for the executives, paid for by Galleon Group, include prostitutes and other forms of illegal entertainment."
Your finance industry stereotypes are about 30 years out of date. Wall Street is way less flagrant about their excess these days.
Meanwhile, in tech... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titstare