Everyone likes to act like they're more important than they are.

Ironically the fisherman might actually be worse ethically and ecologically.

"I press buttons"

If you ask me what my job is and then you ask for clarification because you don't know what that job is, those are two separate questions.

Just because a person does not understand a job does not mean that it's a BS job. By that logic a cyber security analyst is a BS job. But you would sure as hell would notice if all of them went away.