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Hey, can you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting here? We have to ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Yes.

I expect that the comment above describing jobs in finance as a "waste of life", with no other content is also unacceptable.


It sounds like it! but I didn't see that one.


Most jobs do in fact contribute to the well being of humanity, however little. It's few jobs, like most in financial trading, that actively reduce the well being of humanity.

Never will you meet a more self-deluded and pathetic set of humans. Desperate money addicts that often become other kinds of addicts. Whole thing should be abolished.

Source: I worked in finance when I was young and dumb.


> Most jobs do in fact contribute to the well being of humanity, however little.

No, they don't. A lot of jobs hold os back, actually. Salespeople selling things people don't wanna buy, finance and tech bros vampirizing third world countries without the safeguards that western countries have on their capital markets, etc.


I, for one, am so glad to “own” the “compose” button at a democracy destabilizing adtech-conglomerate




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