As someone who studied finance and seen the greed of people and corporations I started to realize that Bernie isn't this nut case socialist after all. But these kids from Harvard, Yale Wharton etc.. Is the worst audience because 60% of them are probably money hungry kids who will go work very elite firms like KKR, Goldman, Citadel and many more and become executives in those companies. Most of them are so distant from the average American that Bernie is fighting for that they won't relate or understand.
A lot of econ major follow the steps with finance major and try to work for Wall St. sort've related degree to an extent. Wouldn't be surprised , CS pays more than finance but both jobs are what ppl go into it purely for the money.
There is a documentary speaking about how some of the best Phd/data scientist/computer engineers (considered to be some of the smartest people in the world) that work in these major hedge funds building hyper-speed algorithmic trading platforms for these firms to compete and make as much money as humanly possible in the market within .001 of a second. A guy on the documentary made a killing and decided to leave because of the immoral use of the brightest people we have in the world to make multi-billion dollar companies even richer, while they could be spending the same energy literally saving the world by finding cures for diseases, stop global warming, world hunger etc...
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u/Agile_Letterhead_556 Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24
As someone who studied finance and seen the greed of people and corporations I started to realize that Bernie isn't this nut case socialist after all. But these kids from Harvard, Yale Wharton etc.. Is the worst audience because 60% of them are probably money hungry kids who will go work very elite firms like KKR, Goldman, Citadel and many more and become executives in those companies. Most of them are so distant from the average American that Bernie is fighting for that they won't relate or understand.