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The financial industry does not serve society nowhere near its magnitude (<London> of course being the epitome of that). It serves only itself. It just grows without bound.
* https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/on-the-floor-laughing-traders-are-having-a-new-kind-of-fun/238570/ On the Floor Laughing: Traders Are Having a New Kind of Fun (2011) by <James Somers> describes trading as a kind of <game>.

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<Ciro Santilli> was not sure under which section classify this video. It is worthwhile despite the title
* https://youtu.be/exPt6mVgpfY?t=123 describes how at <#Lockheed Martin> they were playing the "we are doing it for national defense, not for money card" on employees. <Ciro Santilli> came to understand and despise similar hypocrisy via <Ciro's everyone gets a raise story>
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Finance is a cancer of society

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