Was it the same 70 years ago ?

Reading an interesting book about the development of the jet engine during the 1930s. One of Whittle's backers was a merchant banker (who also happened to be a Cambridge atomic physicist) called Whyte.

The City apparently appealed to Whyte intellectually because "in the City one sees human desires being expressed in quantitative form ........ do stock market prices quantify human lusts in the same way as the clinical thermometer converts human pathology into a numerical temperature?"

I'm inclined to agree with him.

Yes I agree. The markets are the sum total of peoples hopes and fears.

People feel human in the CITY when they realised they are backstabbed and they are bleeding.
Unfortunately is do or die, better being a quantitative analyst, etc. than unemployed!