> If you also consider that many of us, via the companies we work for, actively contribute to making the Internet (and by extension, the world) a worse place
reply“Night must fall, now! Darker! — darker!”
A counterpoint would be that you don't really ever see investment bankers reacting in this fashion.
replyYou don't really ever see investment bankers reacting how?
replyBecause engineers and investment bankers are wired differently.
replyThere's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torment nexuses for FAANG.
replyAren’t quants and what you would usually refer to as “investment bankers” pretty different groups of people?
replyAbsolutely. The quants have legitimate skills. The ibs mostly just got lucky with the big internship junior year that set themselves up for life.
replyThey didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.
replyBecause they chose to not doom scroll?
replyHaving done both I would say not by much
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