One good point made on the finance side is that you have a huge impact because of the size of the deals involved. The scale is much bigger than Google. It als

One good point made on the finance side is that you have a huge impact because of the size of the deals involved. The scale is much bigger than Google. It also takes a certain viewpoint on free markets that most people lack, to see the good that finance does. For example, buying a company with a low share price and liquidating it would be a net plus, but seeing this relies on rejecting common falsehoods, eg that jobs are an externality. The best argument I saw for working in tech came from a promotional video for an investment bank! One analyst is being interviewed, and she says how she spends all her time analyzing companies, but it would feel more "honest" to be actually doing the work that these companies do. While finance does add value to the economy, being so far removed from the coalface may feel less rewarding.