[bonemachine]

Again, yes "liquidity providing" might have some value, maybe. But it's just really hard to see it having anywhere near the social (or simply wealth + capital-generating) power, of say, nurses/medtechs, schoolteachers, effective policing, sane environmental management etc.

That was the original author's point (give or take a few work categories, which I'm taking the liberty of throwing in for the sake of illustration).