The WaPo's Ezra Klein interviewed a Harvard alum and former Goldman analyst who calls himself an "accidental banker."

The anonymous ex-Wall Streeter explains why young financiers are so defensive and angry now that the whole world is protesting their mere existence.

"There's been some real arrogance, but the personal attacks on individuals make them defensive."

Really, he explains, the public should feel bad for them, the bankers who gave up their childhood and dream jobs for money and fancy suits.



And now, financial regulation and populist rage threaten to take away their money, along with their childhood dreams. Of course they feel jibbed.

"People on Wall Street work very hard and they feel they chose this path because there was a reward promised to them. And now, when it's being taken away from them, they get very angry. If the reward hadn't been offered to them, they feel they would've followed their passion."

Read the full interview on WaPo. It's not as bad as we're making it out to be and it's pretty interesting.

Meet a few bankers who ditched Wall Street and followed their dreams -->

Or two analysts who started a tech company -->

(Via Harvard's Fly By Blog)