This idea can be extended beyond simple sexual desire: engineering as it is taught in prestigious universities is an enormous time commitment which dominates your entire life for the prime 19-23 4 years that maybe you should be spending learning about the world and interacting with people. People see this and reject it; they&#x27;d prefer to make friends and have fun than disappear into a black hole for 4 years only to emerge as a creature which they suspect will be allowed by the capitalist system to make money.