Still, incoming associates at New York firms may
feel gypped in light of cost - of - living data showing that $ 160,000 doesn't go nearly as far in New York as in other cities, where firms have also raised pay to match New York salaries.
The book is certainly full of people who
feel beaten up in one way or another — disappointed, out of luck,
gypped of what they once expected and still
feel they deserve — but these hardships aren't the work of particular enemies so much as life's vicissitudes.