Flash boys was a great book for the uninitiated but you have to also take it with a grain of salt as it mostly parrots the point of view of those who got screwe

Flash boys was a great book for the uninitiated but you have to also take it with a grain of salt as it mostly parrots the point of view of those who got screwed by hft — meaning the ones who either disbelieved the possibility, weren’t imaginative / cunning enough to survive or otherwise thought they could shame the system into accepting the former status quo.