If there's a lesson from the ongoing collapse of GE, it should be "stay the fuck out of finance."

There's an interesting take that's opposite here which I don't see mentioned, which is that software businesses make absurd margins and right now the best place to put that money is in the pocket of their employees or new employees (or overseas, or in buybacks). That money could be put to use to increase their margins through financial services but personally I don't want to be a part of that.