What makes this especially disgusting is that JPMorgan doesn't fundamentally do anything to earn the vast majority of what it does. Apple earns billions but at least it designs, builds and delivers millions of tangible products that people love and use daily -- beautiful tools. JPMorgan, like many similar banks and Wall Street type entities, is essentially just a financial organism that has inserted itself into the world's money flows, and, for the most part, does not provide any tangible benefit to the rest of the society. If anything, I think it increases risk to society: greater chance of national economic crises, greater chance of wars driven by profiteers, distortions to the political debate and governance, etc.