Reminder that our old buddy Xi, after seeing too many of China's best and brightest enter the finance sector and use their brains to simply invent ever more parasitic financial vehicles instead of using their talents to innovate in a way that helps China and the chinese people in general, actually changed policy to make less people enter the field, with moves including a capping the salaries of in state-backed finance institutes, a stronger focus on engineer and STEM and the funding of colleges explicitly focused on those things.
Better things are possible, you just have to want to do them.