Not "being a scientist": "science". Science is seen as the road to human (not just personal) propsperity by people educated in the last 100-ish years, which is

Not "being a scientist": "science". Science is seen as the road to human (not just personal) propsperity by people educated in the last 100-ish years, which is mostly everybody now, which puts extreme pressure to perform/produce on what was once a pure little hobby sport whose spectators were almost all invested as players themselves.