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I think software engineering played a significant part in moving the focus away from scientists in the modern era. Before computing scientists were the huge driver of everything, and they held a position of influence in society as a result of that. When computing came around software engineering happened and ever since then almost all "progress" in society has been through the lens of the creation of more and more software infrastructure. Eventually this is to reach a point of general saturation where almost all problems have some sort of software-engineering solution and science is going to be the only pathway forwards again, returning to the past dynamic. Obviously science also didn't go away during this time but for the capitalists it's quite obvious that software through techbros has dominated everything for some time now. This blindspot will hurt them more later when they eventually come out of the fog that software dominance has created.
Capitalists doing the sweating two red button meme where the buttons are "revolutionary solid state battery" and "tinder for dogs".
Capitalists would just press the "tinder for dogs button", nothing to sweat about
Capitalists don’t like dogs aside from as status symbols.