I personally think it's refreshingly honest to focus on moving a number up and to the right, rather than pretending to "make the world a better place" while the bottom-line is to move a number up and to the right.
Exactly. Trading has a clarity of purpose that I just love: unlike other jobs no one is lying to themselves, no one is claiming to help other people. We know there is only one reason why we work together: to make as much for ourselves and the firm as humanly possible.