The secret of the modern economy is that we have so many bullshit jobs around - and no, I have not read the book.
But there are entire industries of remora-like parasite companies that only exist because we CBA'd to make the world a more just place.
Probably the most lenient industry like that is flight compensation companies. EU and some other places mandate that airlines should compensate passengers if their flight is borked. Sounds easy enough, but then we have to define what constitutes a borked flight and what kind of borking could be considered the fault of the airline. Then you have airlines fighting tooth and nail against having channels for claiming compensation be open to passengers.
So flight compensation companies take the whole business of claiming compensation off the shoulders of the disgruntled passenger - who has better things to do that know what flight compensation is or to argue with airlines about METAR data - and uses their expertise to maybe squeeze some money out of the airline.
You don't even pay anything upfront, the company takes a success fee if the compensation comes through - if you're not compensated, you don't pay.
But it's an industry that exists because we have commercial airlines that will fuck up flights via overbooking (x% of passengers miss their flights, so you sell [plane capacity]+x% tickets to maximize flight efficiency) or pilot scheduling issues or maintanance and has an interest in lying about the reasons to withhold compensation.
Anyway, I dream of a world where people who don't want to "work" don't have to because I believe that, at least for the game industry, people who aren't forced to grind away 8-10 hours of their day is a great boon. If nothing else, the mod scene shows how willing people are to put in hour after hour of work into something that won't net them any monetary gain!
