Michael Lewis's Flash Boys shows how Wall Street's automation arms race made human traders obsolete. Algorithms now dominate market flow, and trying to out-click the machines is the wrong game entirely.
Michael Lewis documented it years ago in Flash Boys, a book that he wrote. When speed and automation quietly rewired how markets actually move, he exposed in his book how Wall street was already being eaten alive by algorithms. Traders were locked in an arms race, laying faster cables and writing smarter code just to survive the message. You can't out click out blink, or out muscle a machine that's literally plugged into the market, and Flash Boys was the warning shot. Since then, machines haven't just caught up, they've completely taken over. If you're still trying to beat the bots at their own game, you're not just behind, you're actually playing the wrong sport.
