Yeah absolutely, it used to be that the biggest brains all went to finance for a while in the 80s-90s. Since the 2010s the biggest brains have been going to tec

Yeah absolutely, it used to be that the biggest brains all went to finance for a while in the 80s-90s. Since the 2010s the biggest brains have been going to tech to drive an advertising business based on some addictive social network stuff, kind of sad really. But if you're ivy league level, it's hard to decide to work on anything else if you can make 200k a year starting salary at age 22 in sunny California, while also working on interesting technical problems.