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Debatable if she'd make more or less given her current setup. The deal her family made is: come back and follow our orders to the letter or you are going to be disowned. After that, she became a slave to her mom, and her mom's wishes. Her mom is ethnically Chinese, so she wants her daughter to go through with it all.

Every video of her talking about art feels like she's reading off of a script rather dispassionately. This is just a "job" and a performance she has to do to keep the money flowing. 

Her family is quite wealthy - not insanely rich but well enough off that they can live in high society in New York. The mistake that people make is assuming a "VP" at a financial institution is high ranking, when in fact all the middle-managers and anyone who oversees a department gets the title. Supposedly this practice was created so that customers felt like they were talking to someone high up in the company and felt special and thus more likely to close a deal or work with them.