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I remember once reading someone on Wall Street Oasis saying that Nobel prizes and Fields medals are nothing special (as a judge of intelligence) as the lure of
by majikaja 3y ago
I remember once reading someone on Wall Street Oasis saying that Nobel prizes and Fields medals are nothing special (as a judge of intelligence) as the lure of money found in business is not there to attract the brightest into competing.
- pyduan 3y agoYou are quoting someone from a financial career interview forum who can't imagine why a bright person would want to pursue a lesser paid career in research.
- bjornasm 3y agoAs if you don't easily see the futileness of soending your life chasing money when you are very intelligent.
- hgsgm 3y agoPlease explain why financial modeling is more futile than abstract graph theory. Both are math problems. Guess who paid for the article you just read? James Simons, a "money chaser".
- kyawzazaw 3y agoYet RenTech recruits these people https://www.reuters.com/article/simons-hedge/renaissance-hedge-fund-only-scientists-need-apply-idUSN2135575220070522 https://www.reuters.com/article/simons-hedge/renaissance-hed...
- hgsgm 3y agoThe Wall Street guys work 90 hour weeks and many have to wear awful clothes in awful offices with awful people. The Fields medalists work 20 or less in their pajamas. Are you sure the Wall Street guys are better paid?
- majikaja 3y agoI didn't say I agreed with them, but the smartest probably don't hang around in the places you describe.
- abhayhegde 3y agoI find being on Wall Street is nothing remotely special either as the only attraction there is the one from money. The competition then is to optimize profits, increase shareholder value, dream of becoming a billionaire, own a private jet, buy everything in excess of one's usage, and in all, end up upsetting the balance in society.