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> Most social media characterize finance as some ethical vice or organized political power structure - and those people simply don't understand finance.

Just because quantitative analysis has solid grounding doesn't mean that its use is unrelated to ethics. The finance establishment is an organized power structure whose decisions are political.

If you want an analogy, I'm pretty sure that you'll find plenty of people who used ballistics to achieve goals that you would find pretty unethical.

>>pyrale+(OP)
That can also be said for nearly all specializations/ventures of us humans, right? Physics (nukes), chemistry (explosives and refined sugars), electronics engineering ("engagement optimization"), biology (human experiments maybe), philosophy (started many wars), etc. There doesn't seem to be many things where we haven't corrupted in some way. Everything is about ethics and politics(?)

>>pictur+iv
Everything is political, and everything has ethical considerations, yes.

Refusing to take a side _is_ a side, it means you're fine with how things are going on their own.

This isn't corruption, it's just recognition that life has choices, and those choices have consequences, for yourself and others.