Comment on Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professionsparentComments−ghaff5yI think it's different in that you do have some subset of people who think they're doing things for the common good, and some actually are, but..."Greed is good" Gordon Gecko−cambalache5yLots of finance people, rightly or wrongly justify their work as giving a valuable service to humanity: From "providing liquidity" to "absorbing risk" and "helping your pension grow" the list of supposed goods provided by finance is very long.−ghaff5yAnd they're not entirely wrong. Although there are benefits provided by other industries on net (probably including tech) that are greater.−swyx5yand this isn't much different from "we're making the world a better place by ____" https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
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I think it's different in that you do have some subset of people who think they're doing things for the common good, and some actually are, but...
"Greed is good" Gordon Gecko
Lots of finance people, rightly or wrongly justify their work as giving a valuable service to humanity: From "providing liquidity" to "absorbing risk" and "helping your pension grow" the list of supposed goods provided by finance is very long.
And they're not entirely wrong. Although there are benefits provided by other industries on net (probably including tech) that are greater.
and this isn't much different from "we're making the world a better place by ____" https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso