Comment by ben_w

They did say "or financiers". There's an old quote:

   Finance literally bids rocket scientists away from the satellite industry. The result is that erstwhile scientists, people who in another age dreamt of curing cancer or flying to Mars, today dream of becoming hedge fund managers.

- https://www.ft.com/content/0f788814-3ee0-339d-9680-71d6c7596...

Personally, I'd also add "Big Tech" to the list, as per a more recent quote:

  The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.

- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/747678-the-best-minds-of-my...