I mean, it's gross, but most of us work for monsters if you go far enough up the chain. For the last two years, I've been trying to break into the trading worl

I mean, it's gross, but most of us work for monsters if you go far enough up the chain. For the last two years, I've been trying to break into the trading world, not because I think it's this hyper-ethical thing [1], but because it pays well and it seems interesting, and I'm not really ashamed to admit it. Does that make me a whore or a mercenary or sellout? Absolutely, there's really no getting around that, but I think if most people are being honest, we're all a little selfish. I don't think I'm an especially selfish person, and I would like to think I wouldn't defraud anyone, but I certainly have worked for companies that used very questionable labor practices in developing nations where it's hard to justify outside of "it's really cheap and it's not illegal", an of course that upsets me a little, but fundamentally Tombert is a for-profit enterprise just as much as the business that hires me. Similarly, while it's obviously bad that they defrauded people, I don't think that that author was saying that it's good, or even good to want it. They said "kind of", sort of implying that "yeah, a part of me really would have liked to have a lot of cash and it would have been cool to get it", which I don't really think is that bad. I've thought about directly stealing money from rich people before, it would be nice to have a million bucks, but I've never done it because that would be unethical. [1] I've actually changed my opinions on High Frequency Trading, which I used to say was evil and I don't think that anymore. I'm still not 100% convinced that option trading is ethical though.