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by AstralStorm 2967 days ago
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.