I’m sure this will rile a lot of people, but it’s generally … right? It is a bit sad how many incredibly smart science grads drift into finance purely because the pay is good (and then rationalise it in different ways).https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1419056808472293378 …
The thing about this flavor of criticism is that it's incumbent on you to give some sort of rubric for what's societally beneficial, and this turns out to be hard. "Societal value" has a lot of dimensions, it's a vague enough term that it renders debate nearly meaningless