In theory, the answer is that reputational risk disincentivizes this behavior. In practice, markets these days are pumped so full of easy money in need of some

In theory, the answer is that reputational risk disincentivizes this behavior. In practice, markets these days are pumped so full of easy money in need of somewhere to go that that seems a fairly remote concern. As to "is this all a game"--while I don't think it's good for society that this is the way things are, the extremely wealthy have been playing finance on easy mode for a while now, and so far there's no sign of that stopping.