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What good has Jane Street done to a person living in Madagascar?

This is just blatant Jane Street (and more generally, hedge fund) propaganda.

Yes, you serve some role within the financial system, but you're not really relevant to society imminently and to non-western societies generally.



What good has cancer research done to a person living in Madagascar?


What has a baker living down my street done for a person living in Madagascar?


So you've established: People in Madagascar don't get cancer.


I think it is fair to say that most people discussing Madagascar here, have no conception of how it is like to live there.


It seems none of the people that posted here understood the intention of my comment: The parent comment by ChadNauseam implies that Madagascar citizens somehow would not benefit from cancer research (they would!), which could only be true if they don't get cancer. In my comment I pointed out this last end of this logical chain of conclusions to show how ridiculous the parents' post was.


Nope, just no treatment (not fact checked of course, but it sounds likely that they wouldn't get top notch treatment that an average person say in Western Europe could expect)


Well, they don't get cutting edge treatment for sure.


Well given the periwinkle was found there, not entirely without merit.


What good has your comment done to a person living in Madagascar?


Well, that person can now learn Ocaml because Jane Street uses Ocaml.




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