The problem with engineers (speaking as one myself) is that we're prone to focusing only on the mechanism itself, abstracting away the details and ignoring the

The problem with engineers (speaking as one myself) is that we're prone to focusing only on the mechanism itself, abstracting away the details and ignoring the parts of the system we can ignore. In software we can often get away with this because the rest of the system is just further machinery; there are benefits to taking it into consideration, sure, but nobody gets hurt when you don't. But business and finance are not software. Their systems are made of people. When you waste a CPU's time by ignoring its nuances, you simply get less out of it. When you shuffle money around, writing off the nuances of industry and economics as blips in a monetary machine, you destroy lives. I understand the appeal of the engineering mindset, but you have to be a psychopath to continue in it while leaving such destruction in your wake.