At least in the fake field of "Computer Science" the throughline is that you can go from proletarian to C-suite ruling class in only less than a decade (or being a lingering bootlicking parasite to someone who made that transition).

You move out to the bay area in California, get shackled to an expensive "campus" apartment and commute every day to your humble office right next to a weapons manufacturing base while you are insulated from the rest of the world with great weather every day and a Waymo self driving car that will let you not have to interact with the poors who litter the streets.

"Computer Science" is a disease vector for this because it's not real engineering. You can make profit line go up just by changing some lines on a document or talking to the right Epsteins. You invent problems and then sell more problems while you go on hikes and take expensive vacations at the end of the year.