Nice username. I thought all these things because I never heard the other side of the story, now I'm not sure what I think. These guys aren't sitting around by

Nice username. I thought all these things because I never heard the other side of the story, now I'm not sure what I think. These guys aren't sitting around by themselves making money in a vacuum, they're also allegedly engaging in illegal and/or unethical financial fuckery, for lack of a better term, and obviously spending money on politicians which may or may not mean anything at all. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/hedge-fund-taxes-superpacs-election-renaissance http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/hedge-fund-taxes... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/hedge-fund-hedges-its-political-bets-rentech-renaissance-technologies http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/hedge-fund-hedge... Before any bias is expressed against motherjones, all I want to say is that these two articles are the only even quasi-critical voices I have seen, which also points out the timing and circumstances that surrounded the publication of the article that enamored me of James Simons: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/a-billionaire-mathematicians-life-of-ferocious-curiosity.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/a-billionaire-math... Anyway, everything is grey and nothing is black and white. Just wanted to put something on the other side of the scale.