People who trade financial instruments are foul and are wasting their gifts of high intelligence, work ethic and cunning.

 This is so so so sad to see incredibly capable, smart, skilled managers spending their gifts of high intelligence on gambling that does no good for anyone except themselves and their bosses. This is foul. And dont tell me that their gaming creates greater liquidity. There is more than enough of that

These amazing men should be running manufacturing, building companies, they could be mayors, senators, hospital administrators, professors, in law enforcement, the military. They would be vastly better than our present people in Congress.

This gambling in markets should be much, much more highly taxed than it presently is. It is a 'sin' pastime just like casino gambling, running a bar, prostitution, selling cannabis or tobacco. This is the greatest waste of significant grey matter in the history of man. Shame on our legislators for allowing this to happen.

And shame on all you financial traders for wasting the best 50 years of your lives starring at a Bloomberg. 

Taxes on sin have not eliminated alcoholics, pot heads, hookers, casino gamblers. And it wont eliminate stock, commodity and bonds traders who share the craving for the electrical charge to their ganglia that men crave on all the other addictions.

Significently the loss to humanity of these massively gifted but self centered minds is the trajedgy. These men could end poverty, solve cancer, bring world wide peace, improve efficiencies certainly. This is a vast wasted asset. No other bonus to society is even close if their focus were to be redirected.

There will be more than enough liquidity because these traders are hopelessly, irretrievably addicted. They will STILL keep trading if they are taxed just like alcohol, pot, sex, gambling addicts. For this towering brain drain a price to our society should be paid.

The efficiency you are talking about will be maintained. But these traders will still be looking at their "Bloombergs" after 50 years with nothing to show except fat bank accounts, divorced and with children and grandchildren that wont have anything to do with them. And they think that giving $10,000,000 to the Robinhood Foundation makes up for it. Well, maybe it does. Thank God that a very wise man gave these addicts a way to justify themselves.

Still the waste of hundreds of thousands of people with IQ's over 150 is tragic.

My point is that most traders are addicted to the electrial stimulation of their ganglia by constantly seeking risk. And to me that is the definition of a sinful pastime that should be taxed heavily just like all the other pursuits that add virtually nothing to the good of their fellow man. What is lost is all the good that these really capable men could be doing for society that would actually make it better.

500 years from now historians will marvel that our present government allowed such towering waste to occur that was so obvious without much, much higher taxation for this disorder. Interestingly it is mostly in men with an overabundance of testostorone. and intelligence.