[nsp]

I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer. They're both pretty privileged jobs and HFT is not known for having tons of benefits to society

[notyourday]

> I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer.

Engineers are paid because their companies have customers. The it is pure madness that #hugops is the thing. I sincerely hope that Fastly's customers wack it $$ wise so hard that it actually affects #hugops engineering culture.

[colesantiago]

> I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer.

At least HFT traders don't get paid to spy on their own customers with trackers littered everywhere, I find that very unethical that engineers get paid to even do that sort of thing, and every damn website has these trackers because engineers put them there.

> They're both pretty privileged jobs and HFT is not known for having tons of benefits to society

So HFT firms don't have their own foundations and grants to give to charities and organisations then?