Do you think it could be disparate risk aversions between men and women (or decent people and over-competitive arseholes)? The system only appears to favor them

Do you think it could be disparate risk aversions between men and women (or decent people and over-competitive arseholes)? The system only appears to favor them. The system also punishes them severely at the opposite end. Risk takers make the most money. They also go bankrupt (or to prison. See: Enron). "Decent people", on the other hand, play it safe, and the system neither rewards or punishes them. lkozma makes an excellent point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524031 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524031 Assuming risk profiles are the cause, then the problem is by nature the fact that men are historically the bigger risk takers.