“The deep problem with the system was a kind of moral inertia. So long as it served the narrow self-interests of everyone inside it, no one on the inside would ever seek to change it, no matter how corrupt or sinister it became”

—  Michael Lewis , book Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 88

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