Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics

Inside Job transcript – Sony Pictures – September 2010 34
JONATHAN ALPERT: These people are risk-takers; they're impulsive.
{JONATHAN ALPERT IS A THERAPIST WHOSE CLIENTS
INCLUDE MANY HIGH-LEVEL WALL STREET EXECUTIVES.}
It's part of their behavior, it's part of their personality. And that manifests outside of work
as well.
It's quite typical for the guys to go out, to go to strip bars, to use drugs. I see a lot of
cocaine use, a lot of use of prostitution.
01:45:18.17
{–THE OWNER OF THE V.I.P. CLUB IN CHELSEA, WHO ESTIMATES
THAT ABOUT 80 PERCENT OF HIS CLIENTS ARE WALL STREET TYPES.}
{ANDREW LO
PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR
MIT LABORATORY FOR FINANCIAL ENGINEERING}
ANDREW LO: Recently, neuroscientists have done experiments where, uh, they've, uh,
taken individuals and put them into an MRI machine. And they have them play a game
where the prize is money. And they noticed that when these subjects earn money, the
part of the brain that gets stimulated is the same part that cocaine stimulates.
01:45:38.24
JONATHAN ALPERT: A lot of people feel that they need to really participate in that
behavior to make it, to get promoted, to get recognized.
NARRATOR: According to a Bloomberg article, business entertainment represents 5
percent of revenue for New York derivatives brokers, and often includes strip clubs,
prostitution, and drugs. A New York broker filed a lawsuit in 2007 against his firm,
alleging he was required to retain prostitutes to entertain traders.
01:46:05.24
JONATHAN ALPERT: There's just a blatant disregard for the impact that their actions
might have on, on society, on family. They have no problem using a prostitute, uh, and
going home to their wife.
01:46:18.10 {MUSIC CUE}