Right? I don't really understand what's going on here with time and different worlds, but there are definitely a lot of scientists and chemists and engineers where I come from, and they're all really well respected and important for keeping society running.

[ Orpheus pauses, thinking. ]

I mean, it's also kind of complicated, because we've gotten to the point where machines can do a lot of the jobs that people can do, but faster, and better, and you'd think that would be a good thing? Because then people would be free to do as they wanted. But mostly it's meant their bosses replace them and they don't have a way to make money anymore.

[ Another pause, as Orpheus realizes that was a HUGE DOWNER. ]

But that's not the engineers' and inventors' faults! It's just, um. You know. [ He waves a hand, vaguely. Industrialization!! ]