You ask why there hasn’t been more of an internal revolt, after so many people inside finance who had nothing to do with the causes of the crisis got burned? I’d say there is a great degree of coalescence. People may whine and complain but they get things off their chests and have now morphed into this amorphous blob. It’s a group that sticks together. Call it fatalistic. It can be over any moment so I am going to try and grab what I can.
— Anonymous quant who does investment banking for a software firm in London, quoted by Joris Luyendijk in the Guardian (2011)
