> It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry Pe

> It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry Perhaps a bit too much hyperbole, but lots of industries have these cycles of increasing complexity. The necessity of such complexity is in the eye of the beholder. - Agriculture. Herbicide -> GM plants to resist herbicides - Automobiles. Manual -> Auto - Finance. HFT anyone ? - Construction. - Medicine. - Accounting. GAAP - and finally... Quantum Physics !