Forgive me, but that doesn’t seem like much of an elaboration.
So far as I can tell, Cathy O’Neil left finance before getting involved in Occupy Wall Street. The fact that she took a job at a hedge fund in the first place, and stayed there for a few years, suggests to me that she didn’t start out with overpowering political prejudices against finance in general or hedge funds in particular.
Does your personal acquaintance with her rule out the possibility that her political opinions are (at least in part) a consequence of her experience at D E Shaw rather than a cause, and if so how?
Yes, I’m sure it does. But wouldn’t that mean that her D E Shaw attitudes aren’t a result of her politics, but of some combination of her experiences at D E Shaw and whatever personality feature(s) predisposed her to react to them by joining OWS?
Forgive me, but that doesn’t seem like much of an elaboration.
So far as I can tell, Cathy O’Neil left finance before getting involved in Occupy Wall Street. The fact that she took a job at a hedge fund in the first place, and stayed there for a few years, suggests to me that she didn’t start out with overpowering political prejudices against finance in general or hedge funds in particular.
Does your personal acquaintance with her rule out the possibility that her political opinions are (at least in part) a consequence of her experience at D E Shaw rather than a cause, and if so how?
I’m 90% sure her opinions were the consequence of DE Shaw experiences. But it takes a certain personality to react by joining OW.
Yes, I’m sure it does. But wouldn’t that mean that her D E Shaw attitudes aren’t a result of her politics, but of some combination of her experiences at D E Shaw and whatever personality feature(s) predisposed her to react to them by joining OWS?