Sigh. One of the things I noticed, interestingly at a science fiction convention, was that scientists tend to be socialists and engineers tend to be capitalists.

And, if you think about it, that makes perfect sense since much of the split has to do with whether you see the world as a zero-sum game.

If you are a scientist, you create nothing. You discover the nature of the world which already exits. This inclines you to the zero sum game attitude that the universe is there to be shared.

If you are an engineer, you create things. You know the world is not a zero sum game and that through your efforts you can create more for everyone.

This is, of course, an over generalization. There is also the fact that Einsten, like all academics, lived in an essentially socialist world.