As someone who works in a cushy office occasionally writing code for a living, what you're describing is fundamentally the result of labor aristocracy. The STEMlords are the 'good ones' of the working class that capital dangles like a carrot in front of a donkey to convince the rest of the workers that if they just put their noses to the grindstone a little bit harder they too can play foosball with free beer in an air conditioned office, and they are indoctrinated to play the part and bribed with treats to convince themselves that they deserve it.
I am fully aware that the companies I've worked for are completely fucking worthless in the real world and deliver absolutely nothing of value, and I'm surrounded by people who are thoroughly convinced that whatever widget they're working on is revolutionary and going to transform the world. But they think that way because admitting that you're a lucky bastard who gets paid an obscene wage to refactor an API thirty times in a row instead of doing anything that actually benefits anyone in any material way in complete opposition to everything you've ever been told is a wall of cognitive dissonance to work through and they're bribed heavily not to, so they don't and double down on bazinga-brain shit instead. Their material conditions encourage them to just sit back and enjoy the gravy train, and that along with the propaganda they're exposed to for every second of every day breeds reactionary thought.
I started coming up with some spiel about how to break this down under a less toxic system, but Porkroll already knocked it out of the park so I'll just throw a +1 to his "make engineers dogfood what they make" idea.
Nothing more fascist than...
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...making an alternative timeline where fascism never came into existence to begin with?
You'd have a much easier time arguing that Kaiserreich is monarchist, considering the Entente makes zero sense logistically and yet is still the premiere naval power in the world.