[Spooky23]

He’s an engineer or scientist. The world needs engineers and scientists, and it makes them feel good to assert their superiority.

At the end of the day, these guys always work for somebody, who is usually some sort liberal arts or business major. It’s something to keep in perspective when somebody asserts that math and science run the world.

[eli_gottlieb]

>At the end of the day, these guys always work for somebody, who is usually some sort liberal arts or business major.

Usually that someone is a liberal-arts major because they had a trust fund, not because the liberal arts turn you into an insightful, far-seeing, compassionate leader.

[Spooky23]

Liberal arts help you to analyze information in front of you and express the outcome of such analysis in prose or speech.

[jonnybgood]

Math and science does run the world, but the mathematician and scientist does not. I believe this is more accurate.

[Spooky23]

Once stuff is discovered and productized, the scientists and math people often become redundant. My grandma doesn’t know what machine learning is, but can benefit from it greatly on her iPhone or spam filter.

Hell, once the frameworks get mature, even the programmers don’t need to know much. My understanding of the math behind crypto is incomplete, but I successfully implemented validated systems with other people’s “Lego bricks”

[fjsolwmv]

Check the background of the CEOs of the largest businesses in the world. You'll surprise yourself.