I find it a bit less funny. There is this perception that what finance people do is super important and grown up but following a brief stint in the industry I realised it literally is just a game. We used to trade bits of stationery and trading cards for fun at school. They never stopped. The only difference is people who never consented to any of this are paying for it all, especially when it all goes wrong.
Why would a trader need your consent to make a trade with somebody else?
It’s pretty bad except that any other way is even worse.
That should have been obvious from the mere fact that the bottom rungs are almost completely populated by silver-spooned nepo-babies.