What we have here is a worthless parasite class -- a decadent nobility -- that has buried itself into our civilization like a tick
The fact of the matter is you will have a very hard time finding a financial person who defends the current state of things. I never have. Nobody considers bailouts or too-big-to-fail optimal, and nobody likes the regulatory mud the financial industry swims in. And the financial industry, and probably my paycheck, would be smaller if none of this stuff existed. And I wouldn't mind because it'd be made up for by living in a more productive nation.
Of course, you'll still see mega-rich financiers because the economies of scale are unbeatable in this industry. And calling the financial system "con artistry vs everyone else on the planet" is a worthless thing to say because trading, investing, credit, and risk management add value and to say otherwise puts you in a very flimsy position, a position by which you'd have to adopt a wildly heterodox economic view--such as classical Marxism--to reasonably defend yourself.