Quotes like "Finance is the place you can make your mark on the world. It has to be a personal commitment, because you won’t get credit for it. . . But you will know inside that you have made things happen on a bigger scale than you could at Google." are plain ridiculous. I can think of several good things done by Google. Maybe not for the good of man-kind or some other honorable cause, but I can't recall a single finance giant acting for the good of ANY community.
Stiglitz and Krugman wrote many articles (and books) describing how wall street is heavily flawed, praising arrogance and malpractices by paying huge totally undeserved bonuses to people who never did any real work in their lifespan.
Working in finance, is like saying that you create money out of thin air, because that's what you do actually. The better you are at convincing people that shit is gold, the better you are, the more money you make and so on...
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEL6_SuQCu8 [2]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...