Outsiders to Wall Street
A banker admits Wall Street uses intimidating math as cover; the Black-Scholes formula on the board has 'STEAL' written over it.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-07-16-outsiders-to-wall-street/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Heh. No mere outsider can fathom the workings of Wall Street banks." B: "What, we're so stupid?!"
A: "No, forgive me! I didn't mean that. We're just deliberately obfuscatory — smear an intimidating layer of math over your professional life, and no one will ever challenge you." [Board: Black-Scholes formulas with "STEAL" scrawled across them]
B: "Ah, that's okay. As long as there's a good reason."