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Just me maybe, but I'd rather we didn't compare any people at all to cancer here.
by delhanty 8y ago
Just me maybe, but I'd rather we didn't compare any people at all to cancer here.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y agoIt’s strange how law and finance are both heavily demonized. Why is that? Both professions are productive, yet for some reason, it appears that most will only focus on the negative aspects of these two professions.
- jordanbeiber 8y agoIt’s the speculative part of finance that is loathed. The one that don’t care about fundamentals, product quality, humanity and the earth. The law is in general a good thing, but you have this whole business going that is from a fundamental point of view just meaningless. This business is about patent claims, and often all it manages to do is stifle innovation. You could argue the productivity of both these specialities.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoOne negative example for lawyers would be dragging a case about pensions out for over a decade so that over time people would die and reduce the cost to the company. BT Section A is the case.
- engineeringwoke 8y agoI used to work in finance. People don't like finance because 99% of the time if there's a relationship involved we wouldn't have to compete on price. It would be obvious if someone's shopping around a loan, to the extent that it was very easy to get a broker to send over a competitor's offer sheet so you could compare. People hate finance because at the core it's sales and you make your keep by being predatory since everyone does it. If you don't, you sink.
- scarejunba 8y agoIt's obviously because they make a lot of money with a nebulous amount of work. In SF, tech is seen as the same.
- scarface74 8y agoEspecially thinking about the number of HN posters who are working for unprofitable companies kept afloat by VC funding.