Daria Rose; Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daria Rose, a 27-year-old lawyer who interned at Ray Dalio's hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in 2017 and 2018. Her employment has been verified and the following has been edited for length and clarity.
The first time I ever watched the "Black Mirror" episode "Nosedive" — about a world in which people constantly rate one another — I thought, wait, I've worked for a place like this before.