But, in the mind of the populist masses that Mr Levine it criticizing it is. I don&#x27;t work in finance and I&#x27;m not going to make any judgments on the industry, just to say that people who are opposed to it would be opposed to HFTs as well.<p>Also, the people who applaud &#x27;disruption&#x27; are not this sort of populist, they don&#x27;t cheer because of the damage done to incumbents but because the disruption will hopefully mean better products&#x2F;services&#x2F;prices for customers. HFT just does the job of the old investment bankers slightly more efficiently. If you think investment bankers are bad, you&#x27;re not going to think that more efficient investment are an improvement.