Contrary to popular belief, a lot of people who work desk jobs in finance and engineering firms actually work their ass off cause the concentration of kool-aid drinkers is so high amongst those populations

I don’t think the opposite was ever a popular belief. It seems that everyone knows that, at least in finance (especially speculative), the people there do not see the world as anything more than arrows going up or down, and they’ll do everything to make sure money is made either way. When I say “easy money”, I don’t mean the job is easy, but rather it’s easy to get one simply because so much of the faculty and sponsors of higher education are military or MIC, so it’s relatively easy to get connected in that sector. At least in my state, but maybe that’s because we have a large military and engineering presence.