Daniel Roth at Wired writes a good article at Wired on opportunities unleashing from Wall Street crash (full article at http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-07/st_essay).

Daniel says, among other things, “[...]Often, smart cubicle refugees will seize the opportunity to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, unleashing waves of innovation upon society.[...]“.

I agree that this opportunity is historically true, but should be considered that “big bucks people” had many skills, some of them had also cross “industry” skills, but the majority had a big competence in dealing with financials.

In my opinion, being smart is one thing, while being innovative is another one.

Innovation comes out also from those people with specific skills but who are, at the same time, able to imagine rather than deal with speculations.

I don’t want to be misunderstood: people in finance are smart and sometimes innovative. But to unleash new waves of innovation to our world, those who can need to go a step further and start thinking different.

Otherwise they’ll fail, or at least they’ll make big money for they’re self, while not giving anything to the world.

This article also at http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-07/st_essay