Best Industry to make money? IB vs Programming?

Applying for BSc Mathematics with Statistics for Finance at Imperial College London, Maths and Economics at UCL and MMORSE at Warwick. What industry is best for someone who only cares about money? Will I be able to get a job at Silicon Valley with any of these degrees?

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the best way to make money is to do something you enjoy, that way you'll excel at it and make a lot of money (at least for the industries you mentioned).

 

Fuck which bottom tier undergraduate piece of shit who downvoted me for being better than you. Its your own fault for being too stupid to get into a good university

 

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