if you wanted to go to college to pursue a career that involved seperating rich people from their money, what lines of work would you consider? thought about trying to become a lawyer but i suck at the socratic learning method.
...but pretty much some computer science related or finance related field. At the present day people in these fields hold a lot of power.
While being a laywer might make you cause some small disruptions in the short term but IMO the other fields have the power to simply be more disruptive.
....i actually am considering trying to pursue an education in computer science though. i can see how that might apply in unthought of ways. hell bitcoin itself is an example, not that i could ever achieve anything that impressive.
If you make your way through learning computer science (or simply learning programming for real), you'll gain a skill set which is indeed very useful in our present highly complex environment.
But this skill set isn't necessarily what you need to "separate rich people from their money". It's rather the opposite of what you need.
Learning computer science teaches you a structured way of thinking. But to outsmart other smart people, you'll need to learn how to manipulate. Thus you need a deep and intuitive understanding of the "human factor", you need both empathy and an affinity for the mixed-up and confused states of our existence, without the urge to get matters sanitised and cleaned up first -- and this is exactly a weak spot of many computer science cracks.
