Hey man, don’t knock finance. White-collar crime is the only industry that the wealthy westerners still dominate, and we’re hanging on for dear life. If it helps, think of it how aristocracies shore up the value of their cultural capital but making more and more complex imaginary rules of “etiquette” and “taste” to separate themselves from the lower and middle classes, ensuring that the bubble of their incestuous wealth, business, favors, political force and marriages stays in the family. Likewise, we’ve create a bizarre market of imaginary money, all sustained and kept insulated by hidden, secret math, accumulated capital, purchased political power and smoky, incestuous backrooms. Don’t take it from us, what will we do otherwise, WORK?