Interesting times to be alive in... even Google considers a similiar move based on some news report, but mentioning 30k employees.
Business, finance, politics, and law were always the power centers since time immemorial.
Tech comes out of nowhere and starts to upend the system with salaries competing with the above.
Tech inventing its own replacement (none of the other fields are capable of this) may reduce tech power in the end. The others will laugh to the bank.