I haven’t thought about this much. I am just reporting that some people I briefly talked to thought EA was mainly that and had a negative opinion of it.
Because finance people are bad people and therefore anything associated with them is bad. Or for a slightly larger chain, because money is bad, people who spend their lives seeking money are therefore bad, and anything associated with those people is bad.
Don’t overthink this. It doesn’t have to make sense, there just have to be a lot of people who think it does.
This seems counterproductively uncharitable. Wall Street in particular and finance in general is perceived by many to be an industry that is overall harmful and has negative value, and that participating in it is contributing to harm and producing very little added value for those outside of high-earning elite groups.
It makes a lot sense to me that someone who thinks the finance industry is, on net, harmful will see ETG in finance as a form of ends justify the means reasoning, without having to resort to reducing it to a caricature of “money bad = Wall Street bad = ETG bad, it doesn’t have to make sense”.
That’s literally just the same thing I said with more words. They don’t have reasons to think finance is net negative, it just is polluted with money and therefore bad.
Why would it be harmful to work for Wall Street earning to give? Sincere question.
Finance is like anything else. You can have an ethically upstanding career, or you can have an ethically dubious career. Seems crazy to generalize.
I haven’t thought about this much. I am just reporting that some people I briefly talked to thought EA was mainly that and had a negative opinion of it.
Because finance people are bad people and therefore anything associated with them is bad. Or for a slightly larger chain, because money is bad, people who spend their lives seeking money are therefore bad, and anything associated with those people is bad.
Don’t overthink this. It doesn’t have to make sense, there just have to be a lot of people who think it does.
This seems counterproductively uncharitable. Wall Street in particular and finance in general is perceived by many to be an industry that is overall harmful and has negative value, and that participating in it is contributing to harm and producing very little added value for those outside of high-earning elite groups.
It makes a lot sense to me that someone who thinks the finance industry is, on net, harmful will see ETG in finance as a form of ends justify the means reasoning, without having to resort to reducing it to a caricature of “money bad = Wall Street bad = ETG bad, it doesn’t have to make sense”.
That’s literally just the same thing I said with more words. They don’t have reasons to think finance is net negative, it just is polluted with money and therefore bad.