This is how the Regulatory Capture has come to be. None of those out protecting consumers from the finance industry are doing what really needs to be done, because they know that their next job is likely to be at one of the institutions they are investigating.
I believe it was This American Life that recently did a podcast that went into depth on this issue.
Let's take this a different direction for a moment... Why is it that the IT industry screams that they have a labor shortage when salaries are flat. With million dollar salaries in finance you would think that industry must have a severe labor shortage.
They just pay out more of their (large) profits than tech business do. eg as if Google paid 100% bonuses every year as they are so profitable, rather than retaining cash, paying shareholders and paying executives a lot mainly retaining cash though).
It's good of you to admit that, but I have to ask: why? Why is 3 million so different from 200k as to be worth being willing to set aside ethics / become antisocial?
I believe it was This American Life that recently did a podcast that went into depth on this issue.