I knew a guy who went to work for them right out of college, in about 1983 or '84. He was the biggest scumbag I knew at the time and I remember thinking,
"what a scumbag way to get through life." Something about focusing your existence on making money, nothing else, always struck me as one of the least meaningful and rewarding ways to make it to the cemetery.
I've always thought of money as being a byproduct of work, either producing or creating something of value to society and reaping the financial reward. I've never given money much thought. In modern capitalism, most of the big money is made gambling/speculating/investing with other people's money. The RE boom, (and the junk bond boom before it), are perfect examples of money being made with absolutely nothing produced for society whatsoever except for more money. It's all gross to me. YMMV.
Proof that given enough time, even a monkey can write Shakespeare.