Unlike many here, I think he has a point. The entire finance industry is corrupt. People have been trying to make more money by being over leveraged for some time now. Anyone remember 2008? Regulation helps, but not most obviously people find ways to get around that.
It doesn’t, by any means, excuse what he has done. Yet the conversation delivers a very authentic insight into how people at the top of financial institutions with the goal to earn unreasonable amounts of money the get rich people richer actually think and act. For that it’s a great piece.