As you'd find through hedge fund manager Ray Dalio's manifesto, capitalism and sexual liberation operate on the surprisingly similar assumptions: that honest and rational self-interest will bring the most amount of pleasure to everyone. In both fields there is a deeply American language of the self — stressing the benefits of radical honesty, self-help, and an unembarrassed pursuit of self-actualization. There's a reason sex positive columnists like Dan Savage are called the Classical Liberal of the sexual barter economy. As long as two consenting adults can barter an agreeable exchange of pleasures, everything is (assumed to be, at least) peachy.
No surprise, then, that Bridgewater Associates' "Principals" sound like Steve Jobs giving a BDSM workshop.
Bridgewater Associates is not only the world's biggest hedge fund (managing over $122 billion in assets), but also the most famously cultish one. If you're one of Bridgewater's 1,200 elite employees, you're not only required to read founder Ray Dalio's autobiography and manifesto, you're also rigorously quizzed on it.
Can you tell which of these quotes is sex-positive advice, and which is from Bridgewater's employee handbook?
