Comic #5996: purity-2

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Panel 1: Person 1: "So why do you want to go into quantitative finance?" Person 2: "THE PURITY!"

Panel 2: Person 2: "Some people want to go into math with practical utility. Others want to go into math with no applications at all. I want to go into a field with anti-utility!"

Panel 3: Person 2: "I want to create trading algorithms that make money purely on speed, providing no improvement in resource allocation but still extracting wealth."

Panel 4: Person 1: "Have you considered going into weapons development?" Person 2: "But those weapons could be used for good!"