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The article struck me as anti-intellectualism run amok. I didn't even see a hint of anything indicating that quants were especially to blame.
by mschy 17y ago
The article struck me as anti-intellectualism run amok. I didn't even see a hint of anything indicating that quants were especially to blame.
- lucifer 17y agoThe OP source is one of the organs of record for a specific political set and this is probably the outlines of the (official) emerging sacrificial goat theory for the collapse. The "anti-intellectual" aspect is likely incidental beyond its nice fit with a strategy designed to deflect the certain anger and energy of the ripped off population.
- Tangurena 17y agoI see this as a scape goating of the quants. Not the mismanagers who hired and profited from the quants. The culpability of the mismanagerial classes are being whitewashed away.
- spamizbad 17y agoI feel the same way. They make it sound like quants are these high falutin half-Gordon Gekko/half-Charlie Epps figures who use their sheisty siren call of maths to seduce the otherwise noble and innocent investors into foolish endeavors. That's simply not the case: it was the other way around.