Comment by nicoburns
3 months ago
> Which very highly paid job does not command respect in society?
Banking? Sales?
> Outside of anti-capitalist circles ofc
Well that's quite the point. Maybe those circles are small in the US, but they aren't in most of the rest of the world.
Let me just say that if I called my parents and told them that I had gotten a well-paid job at, say, a hedge fund, they would not be impressed and would likely think less of me for it.
One doesn't need to be anti-capitalist to dislike bankers, salespeople, or many other similar careers. They, in many cases at least, rely on information inequalities to deceive and rip off people. I love capitalism, but I loathe sketchy behavior done in the pursuit of money. They are two very different things.
Also, a nonzero amount of people remember events like the Great Recession that were caused by the hubris of bankers.