“The more money to be made gaming the financial markets, the more people would decide they were put on earth to game the financial markets – and create romantic narratives to explain to themselves why a life spent gaming the financial markets is a purposeful life.”

—  Michael Lewis , book Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 266

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