EY feels kinda...cheap. Are the other B4 like this?!

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Not to drink the kookaid, but we’re paid above the median household income for the country and get $50 a night for dinner that we can average on the road and can expense a lot of stuff through very easily...I think they’re getting too bad of a rap

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Thanks for this perspective. Sometimes it’s easy to take things for granted.

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I mean I’m not saying we have the best gig in the world. But give me the counter argument

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