What a wasteful and unproductive enterprise, considering the vast majority of the devised improvements never see the public eye.
Still, impressive work. Imagine if those brilliant minds behind this were focused somewhere else.
- make people click on ads
- make trading algos faster
- replace human artists
- build more efficient killing machines
- destroy any remaining concept of privacy
Not to mention it also suggests there is a way to "compare" minds. I would not choose myself to do somethings, but that does not mean I despise automatically people choosing to.
It might not seem like real work, but making money by reducing costs of market participants sounds like a good thing. I admit though, block trades might be harder now than before the rise of HFT.
If you could do warehousing/distributing/coordinating fresh foods in a way that reduced the difference in price between the farmer and the consumer and make money doing it, that would clearly be good work.