@sc_griffith Let me just leave a blurb and a link here after pointing out the following:

You can't just *give* money to a class of people to have them sit-out a political fight, if you're smart, you've run out of management positions, and you want to temporarily leave them an illusion of dignity, you *launder* it.:

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

...a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs