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by lucas_membrane 2965 days ago
Do-nothing jobs may be a problem, but do they outnumber jobs that exist to support, sustain and inflict a system that is not user-friendly? For example:

How big is the 'security' industry (include 'national security')?

What percent of the workers at the health clinic you visit are there to control, limit, and ration the access to medical care?

Isn't the entire legal system there to sustain the power of the powerful?

Isn't the educational establishment designed to support a hierarchical society in which the highly-educated are few, highly-paid and comfortable, and the rest are not?

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1) Very big, because it includes the whole military intelligence complex in your definition.

2) About 20 hired specifically for this purpose. Admins, doctor and nurse managers, a few receptionists, a few ministers.

3) Not all, not even most of it. Plenty of civil, criminal and driving cases. These are very common. The patent and copyright lawyers are the minority...

4) Not in principle. In practice there are such pathologies, especially in countries without good public higher education. In principle the education system is to supply a source of educated and intelligent workers for complex jobs, including lower levels for less demanding ones. The trouble begins when rich and powerful segregate themselves into educational sinecures.