[jsprogrammer]

>Perhaps it's because he works in the financial industry?

It could be. There is definitely an adversarial relationship between owners and employees (both are competing for the same pie, in most models) and I'm comfortable guessing that many in the finance industry (including the industry media) identify more strongly with owners than employees. If such an identity is stronger, it's more than reasonable to expect that those with that identity will show undue bias towards those who seem to have a similar identity and against those who may be viewed as a type of adversary.

The industry appears to be founded on the idea of all profits flowing to owners. It seems reasonable that the industry would generally reject alternative models with little thought.