That is all he is paid to do. So, I have come along. I keep asking what are obvious systemic questions that a historian with graduate school-level training in sociology and economics is trained to ask. I ask questions about social systems and institutional survival. And for my trouble, I am dismissed by some programmers as being a mere historian and out of my field.
Historians deal with dates and sequences of dates.
They deal with centuries. They are paid to understand social consequences of individual actions. It was not a priesthood of historians that recommended dropping two digits as a cost-cutting device. It was a priesthood of programmers. We are now facing disaster because programmers do not think systemically in the area of social theory.