Why do you feel you need to defend finance?

The fiance mindset has won and taken over the world. Being this defensive about one opening sentence makes you sound like sore winner.

I don't know anything I'm sure compared to you, but I do know that we are trashing the environment and we aren't even bothering to feed clothe and give basic health care to everyone yet and we probably never will.

I suspect maybe it's because we think in terms of finance.

In medieval times they used to have people debate endlessly on obscure points of theology and catechism. Just because they had a lot of erudite people poring over that esoterica doesn't meant it was useful.