Young migrant workers rise quickly through hard work in commodities trading

Evidence

Consider Sade (the young man who appeared in the preface and a friend of Omar’s). He’s twenty-five now, but when he was eighteen, he began working as a point clerk at the commodities exchange. (He was one of the guys on the trading floor who you see screaming orders and reading that bizarre sign language traders speak.) The exchange where he worked dealt mostly in cocoa, sugar, coffee, cotton, and dollars, and Sade worked primarily in cotton. In the beginning he clerked for four traders until he mastered his skills. Soon eleven people depended on him. He was eager and hardworking, and he also got his brother a job there. His brother worked in sugar. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 702