Keep pulling the thread on Michael Lewis.
The prevailing culture in the financial sector rewards exploiting systemic flaws for profit, while discouraging and devaluing efforts to fix those same flaws.
Michael Lewis believes the financial system is agnostic about human behavior, caring neither if actions are good nor bad, only if they are profitable.
The primary moral problem on Wall Street is characterized by sins of omission, where individuals fail to fix systemic problems, rather than sins of commission, where they actively seek to do harm.
The rise of meritocracy has led successful people, such as corporate CEOs or those in high-level jobs on Wall Street, to persuade themselves they are solely responsible for their success and thus owe no debt to society.
In the United States, there is a cultural momentum among elites to maximize personal financial gain, with the perception that failing to do so makes one a fool.