A friend described software engineering as wizardry, in the D&D 5E sense - you study the arcane systems that underpin the modern world, learn how they worked, a

A friend described software engineering as wizardry, in the D&D 5E sense - you study the arcane systems that underpin the modern world, learn how they worked, and then learn how to manipulate them to affect the world in the way you want - and described lawyers as clerics: you learn how to appeal to the gods (courts, cops, the myriad powers of the state) to cause those powers to intercede on your behalf, mostly by learning the phrases and chants that impel those powers to act. (And I suppose in that taxonomy, sorcerers are the wealthy: either by birth or by some form of ritual they have gained a power that causes things in the world to happen the way they want them to.)