Glorify not the psychopathic adherence to "number go up at all costs" of the finance sector; grim authrnticity or not. The love of Mammon above all else is still as much the root of evil today as it's been in the past; and even more so as it's easier than ever to get those electrons shluffing around to extract "value at scale" in contexts we'd never have dreamed of such things being necessary or proper before.

It is no accident that cell phone infrastructure infiltrates the world faster than fresh potable water systems or roads. One of these is useful primarily to the user in proximity. One, is most useful to the remote investor.