[verbify]

They provide a price-finding mechanism, and finding the price of goods helps create value.

[lvs]

Snore. We can find the price without them, and so much of that function is fully automated anyway.

[verbify]

If it's automated, why do people bother paying these people?

And even if it is automated, someone has to write the algorithms, no?

And how do you propose finding the relative value of different companies without these people?