[julianeon]

Why is Finance in the "in-between" category? Finance is the single biggest and most important field for thriving with B.S. If you're an influencer, or a public personality, and you can convince people you're good with money, that's it: you've won, you're rich.

You might be bad but not malicious (Jim Cramer), you might be bad and malicious (Logan Paul), you might be some other thing where you're making highly contestable claims but it doesn't matter because investors throw their money at you (Elon Musk), you might even be in that same industry and a plain old fraud who got caught (Nikola, Trevor Milton).

As that last example in particular shows, if you can BS and get away with it, great wealth lies in store for you.

[friend_and_foe]

If you're making financial decisions based on your ideas you'll fail if you're a bullshitter. If you're just giving people advice, not putting your money where your moyth is, sure, but then you're not really doing finance, you're just bullshitting full time.