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It's not so much as individual egregious acts so much as it is the point of the industry.  For example, billions are made off short automated algorithmic trades over tiny amounts of money.  The faster you can get data, process it, and make your trades, the more money you can make.

That's not a service.  That's skimming.  Make a few million every second off billions of dollars being traded via some algorithm and that money comes off the top of everyone else.  Steal a half penny from every American each day and you'll quickly become very rich, even when no one notices you're stealing from them.

The industry exists to make this easier and faster and better at extracting wealth off the top.  If you want to make money, going into finance and developing those tools and models will pay well.  Very well.  Because you are being hired to make money, lots of it.  But if you have a problem using your skills to manipulate financial markets so it's easier for large institutions to make lots and lots of cash, you should probably stay away from working in finance.  It might feel dirty.

*for what it's worth, I don't know if he worked in a HFT (high frequency trading) department, but I used them as an example because they're kinda a great example of getting rich by offering just about nothing of value
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