Engineer here. Wizard power is abundant, but due to its non-scalable nature (improvements on the time-cost to produce wizard results are all within a single order of magnitude) & non-public-facing nature (king-power is intrinsically other-forward), it’s very concealed. The defense industry holds tremendous wizard power.
Regarding education, I think a lot of wizards have been trapped in what I believe to be a dead-end of software. Why do I think this is a dead end? It lacks the rigor needed to find truth & the physical substance to affect the material world. All software can do is concentrate king (or god, more on that later) power. This is without reference to the impact of AI on coding skills’ relevance.
We used to have a lot more wizard training in high school. I think we’d be able to afford a lot more.
But wizard power is costly to use (stuff costs money) & costly to train (machine tools etc need a place to live at best & expensive maintainance contracts at worst). So we find why software is seductive. It’s basically free.
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Meta: Interestingly, this post made me think more about the nature of ``king power″. First blush take: there’s two things:
``King Power″, which fundamentally has something to do with decisionmaking & assuming the responsibilities associated with it. It’s the power to command, granted to the King by others because they trust that he will bear the cost of failure. (Note: when this is subverted, eg corporate misconduct, people get very upset)
``God Power″, which is self-referential, egregoric, and exists because people believe in its existence. Democracy has god power, not king power. But the god power of democracy grants king power to its executives. Those executives then go & lure wizards into their service.
But there does seem to be a difference between god power & king power. Boards of Directors have king power but not god power. Celebrities have god power but not king power.
Anyways long live wizard power; love that stuff.
Gut instinct is that the number of kings needed to maximally coordinate a number of wizards is somewhere around logarithmic.