NYT: "young people are recalculating old assumptions about success. The flood of money into private equity and hedge funds over the last decade... the mathematically gifted cohort of rising stars known as 'quants.' Many college graduates who are bright enough to be top computer scientists or medical researchers are becoming traders instead, and they measure their status in dollars instead of titles."

Dollars instead of titles instead of impact.

What a waste. Imagine what those brains could do as computer scientists or medical researchers.