Really ignorant take imo. There's so much good technology created because of the wealth created by finance and ads and other boring industries.
Really ignorant take imo. There's so much good technology created because of the wealth created by finance and ads and other boring industries.
And also a lot of toxic technology that shouldn’t exist. I agree with parent that many brilliant minds are wasted on zero sum practices at these hedge funds, because the potential profits are so high. It’s a useful social question to ask how we can incentivize the smartest people to work on the most important problems, since naturally there’s little profit in curing obscure diseases.