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>traders routinely get money in this order of magnitude for creating a net value less than top engineers at Google

But traders don't create value they leech it. Yes they create price changes that result in profit, but that's a quirk of the financial system. Yes, fluidity, yadda-yadda, I don't buy that crap.

Engineers, if they're working effectively are creating value.

(Downvoters, please also comment).



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