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Finance allows people to - 1) attend college and pay for it later 2) buy a car to get to work 3) raise capital to start your business 4) Allows people to enter

by dman 15y ago

Finance allows people to - 1) attend college and pay for it later 2) buy a car to get to work 3) raise capital to start your business 4) Allows people to enter positions which cut down the risk to their business from external variables like currencies and commodity prices 5) Allows people to do stupid things 6) Allows people to travel light without having to carry loads of cash 7) Enables stupidity If you start holding the enablement of stupidity against industries then there will be very few left that dont enable stupidity in some form or another.

BadCookie 15y ago
I never said that finance doesn't do anything good. But the compensation that people in finance receive is often way out of proportion to the good that they do in the world (assuming that they are doing good, which they often aren't). What makes finance dangerous is that it is capable of taking many other industries down with it when it fails. But it is not in the best interest of people in finance to be careful. They can make more money taking big risks in the short term, so that's what they do.
- dman 15y ago
  Lets dismantle the defense industry [1], physics research at public universities [2], chemical manufacturing [3], medical companies [4] while we are at it. Banning people/industries for their worst behavior is going to create a very sparse, minimalistic world. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_an... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide We need to learn lessons from what happened and help prevent it from occurring in the future but lets not go overboard here.

by dman 15y ago

BadCookie 15y ago

I never said that finance doesn't do anything good. But the compensation that people in finance receive is often way out of proportion to the good that they do in the world (assuming that they are doing good, which they often aren't). What makes finance dangerous is that it is capable of taking many other industries down with it when it fails. But it is not in the best interest of people in finance to be careful. They can make more money taking big risks in the short term, so that's what they do.

dman 15y ago
Lets dismantle the defense industry [1], physics research at public universities [2], chemical manufacturing [3], medical companies [4] while we are at it. Banning people/industries for their worst behavior is going to create a very sparse, minimalistic world. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_an... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide We need to learn lessons from what happened and help prevent it from occurring in the future but lets not go overboard here.