When you talk about creating serious value, you're not talking about value in general, but the value derived from the money supply. Not that there's anything di

When you talk about creating serious value, you're not talking about value in general, but the value derived from the money supply. Not that there's anything dirty about money. But value can come from other places. For some people, it's hard to escape the soul-sucking nature of working in finance. The super-high salaries are a kind of anti-filter: they attract people who really don't "love what they do." And eventually money isn't enough to keep such people working. That's why i-banking has such a high burnout rate. Speaking of Nietzsche, I know someone who quit i-banking to teach philosophy, of all things.