[optimalsolver]

>I guess every person that's doing what matches their interests is somehow a bad person/parasite/etc

If they inflict harm on their fellow humans in order to do so, then literally yes.

There's a reason why a society will collapse if you have too many of this type of person.

[qweqwe14]

HFT is also harmful, and so are the majority of startups that don't do anything actually useful and just take VC money. Those are just a few examples off the top of my head.

What I'm saying is that there are a lot more technically legal ways to profit that harm society, some of them more nefarious than what Jia Tan did.

Doing things that are bad for the society in a fucked up society seems justifiable. It doesn't necessarily make you a bad person.

People just have a more averse reaction to things that are obviously bad, even if in practice there are way worse things that initially seem innocuous and are actually legal to do. That's just the textbook example of hypocrisy.