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So, take a look at my previous comment (I am sibling, not parent). The pencil pushers are still being manufactured by the educational system itself, but they major in Business now, not Social Sciences or Education. This is due to government policy from 1980s incentivizing the creation of more business entities (they each need accountants, and managers, and so on), which caused a few generations of people to go down that route. The tragedy here is that these generations have internalized the idea that the practical and profitable is more valuable than the aesthetic and beautiful. Instead of cultivating human beings that can contemplate and appreciate, we are cultivating human beings that can analyze and optimize (this is fine, but it is possible to have too many of them, which creates a competitive dynamic that _everyone_ has to participate in, that _nobody_ can opt out of, and that most people (80% or more) -- even very capable and strategic people -- are likely to lose).

What I am saying is that the paper pushers are allocated elsewhere, they are more miserable and shallow minded now, and they have a corrosive long-term effect on society and culture, even though they contribute positively to economic growth. In way, it is trans-generational debt with extra steps.