Because science and technology is low status grunt work for peasants who are clever.
Finance, law, medicine, etc are higher status middle class roles and that's where the aspirational end up.
Finance, law, medicine, etc are higher status middle class roles and that's where the aspirational end up.
Law isn't a guaranteed way to a high status career anymore, far from it.
Medicine sure. But the initial investment is multiple times that of a tech career, for fairly marginal gains in quality of life (when it isn't actually worse).