On: Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street?

[tmsh]

The only problem with the financial industry is that after ten years or so you realize that 20% more of 80%* of the minds of people are motivated by a greed that simply doesn't exist in other industries.

*I read people's minds.

[jrockway → tmsh]

In the other industries, people are motivated by doing just enough work to not get fired, and then reading Facebook all day.

Basically, people in general are depressing. That's not a finance thing, that's a human nature thing.