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The sentiment that finance and hedge funds are somehow evil seems to be quite common in the startup and technology world. I sometimes see it here on HN and I've come across it a few times during my career in Silicon Valley.

People going into finance are treated as if they are selling out. I wonder where this sentiments comes from, and whether you believe this to be true or false?

I've worked for both a hedge fund and tech companies, and personally found the former quite refreshing. People in finance are honest about just wanting to make money, while I found that many in tech secretly just want to make money but publicly pretend that they want to "make the world a better place." I think that keeping up this fake persona can be quite damaging psychologically, especially for young startup founders.

What do you think?