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<p>It would appear that you have missed the point. Nobody has said that the only good jobs are the ones on Wall Street (besides, there are plenty of finance jobs outside of Wall Street). Nowhere did anyone suggest that finance jobs are superior to any others; quite the opposite, the point is that finance jobs are not inferior to any others.</p>
<p>Our economy would die if there were nobody to finance the inventors of society, just as it would die if there were no inventors to finance.</p>
<p>And as for the kid’s cover letter, it’s worth noting that everything I’ve heard about finance recruiting is that cover letters typically just get a cursory glance to make sure the kid applied to the right company and didn’t make a fool of himself. It is damn impressive for him to write a cover letter that went viral for positive reasons.</p>