On top of that, to the extent that people do pick up on this, the sciences will continue to be starved of the people who can bring about advances—this past generation they were lured away to produce deceptive financial instruments that hid dangerous risk, and which (governments claim) put the global financial system at the brink of collapse.
If you’re not happy with what they did in finance, why do you think they would have been useful in science?
They’re smart. They’re capable of figuring out a creative solution. And the financial instruments they designed were creative, for what they were intended, which was to hide risk and allow banks to offload mortgages to someone else. Someone benefited from the creativity, just not the average worker or consumer.
I recommend The Quants—those guys weren’t just hiding risk in mortages, and it’s plausible that they were so hooked on competition and smugness that there was a lot of risk they were failing to see. They weren’t just hiding it on purpose.
Yes, capable of figuring out a creative solution to maximizing their goals when faced with the incentive structure of science. You think that the people who remain fail to do science when faced with these incentives, so why do you expect these others be more altruistic?
If you’re not happy with what they did in finance, why do you think they would have been useful in science?
They’re smart. They’re capable of figuring out a creative solution. And the financial instruments they designed were creative, for what they were intended, which was to hide risk and allow banks to offload mortgages to someone else. Someone benefited from the creativity, just not the average worker or consumer.
I recommend The Quants—those guys weren’t just hiding risk in mortages, and it’s plausible that they were so hooked on competition and smugness that there was a lot of risk they were failing to see. They weren’t just hiding it on purpose.
Yes, capable of figuring out a creative solution to maximizing their goals when faced with the incentive structure of science. You think that the people who remain fail to do science when faced with these incentives, so why do you expect these others be more altruistic?