Smart Indian-American children, whose parents work in engineering or tech, are moving to High Finance.
This mirrors what smart Americans have done for well over a generation - when I got my PhD from Princeton in 1994, a former engineer from silicon valley, who moved to a Wall Street job, tried to persuade me to join their quantitative analysis and trading team and I instead took a lower paying job as an engineer at Qualcomm. I did not find the idea of making money on money appealing - probably my father's admonition from childhood.
Recently I have noticed that smart well-educated Indians are gravitating to Finance. This is not good.
We need to apply our talents to solve hard engineering and tech problems, hard urban and rural infrastructure problems, hard health care problems and so on.
Making money on money feels easy but a finance-driven economy would destroy society. This is ancient wisdom, and we must pay heed.🙏
@svembu Love your post. As an engineering graduate, have gravitated towards solving problems.
Creating money with money would destroy society - Totally agree 💯
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