One of the wonders of the modern economy is that you don't need to know the purpose of your job, in fact it probably has 1000s of purposes. You can just do it.

One of the wonders of the modern economy is that you don't need to know the purpose of your job, in fact it probably has 1000s of purposes. You can just do it. Anyone working in finance is basically making capital allocation more efficient and as a result steering millions of decisions in tiny ways. Do they understand it? No. But they don't need to...