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You know why our colleges have become PC SJW temples don't you? So that Liberals can educate Minorities just enough to put them in Government jobs, where their lack of useful knowledge will serve the privileged White elite kids, go on to real white collar jobs to pillage and steal. And if that Cracker Mark Zuckerberg ever ends up in a Senate Hearing the Best students will beat their gavels and howl like primitive Tribal apes, and make so much Race baiting noise no justice can take place. Interrupt the discourse and protect the White Elitists that may come before them, while shitting on the voters that may vote them out or demand change.

I think it's a logical outcome of government based centralization. Governments by nature are parasites that create positions that only benefit themselves, and their family/friends. As government continues to grow, the public sector expands and high paying useless positions wash over America like a diarrhea tsunami. Government growth is aided by the creation of dependent city-dwellers who rely on government for everything from water, to security.

The good news is this model is unsustainable, and optional. People are moving toward de-centralizing freedom through their choices in housing, location, and food. You can live completely self-reliant if you're committed. And eventually the shit-storm of meaningless jobs and professions will be washed away in a deluge of newfound freedom and independence.

Things will get better.

Aphroman says

In April 2010, Kevin Kelly cited the phrase "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution", and called it the "Shirky Principle"

That's true, and especially conspicuous in the medical sector, especially since HeritageFoundationCare/Obamneycare got enacted in March 2010. A tsunami of infinite subsidies push disproved treatment modalities, and junk such as OxyContin (never shown to be better than generic morphine, nor even really better than OTC analgesics that cost 99% less). Meanwhile, prohibition (including the drug war and a general FDA prohibition against any unapproved drug or device) creates a huge barrier to entry that prevents disruptive innovation from reaching the market. Recipients of the subsidies use the $ to lobby for, and litigate for, more subsidies for their industries and more prohibition against competitors.

NuttBoxer says

Government growth is aided by the creation of dependent city-dwellers who rely on government for everything from water, to security.

Sure, city-dwellers are more pro-government because they are more dependent on government for their survival. Most Democrats live in big cities on the coasts. But to be fair, cities could not function without those services, so you can see where they get the idea that more government = better, even if it's not true in general.

Aphroman says

Kevin Kelly cited the phrase "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution", and called it the "Shirky Principle"

Lol, so true. Without the problem, the institution will die, so institutions preserve and publicize the problem, but really do not want to fix it. All of the University Offices of Political Correctness are exactly like that. They need a supply of victims to justify their funding, and if they can't find victims, they invent them.

curious2 says

Recipients of the subsidies use the $ to lobby for, and litigate for, more subsidies for their industries and more prohibition against competitors.

Yes, just through some perverse kind of unnatural selection, we end up with the most profitable industries being those which can lobby for subsidies and against market-based competition, and then funnel some of their outsized profits back into the lobbying game. You can just look at the list on OpenSecrets.com to get a good idea who they are:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYear=2018

US Chamber of Commerce $43,700,000
National Assn of Realtors $27,330,272
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America $15,717,500
Open Society Policy Center $12,890,000
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $11,822,346
American Hospital Assn $11,364,824
Business Roundtable $11,320,000
American Medical Assn $11,240,000
Alphabet Inc $11,010,000
AT&T Inc $10,344,000
Northrop Grumman $8,950,000
Bayer AG $8,080,000
Comcast Corp $7,782,000
Boeing Co $7,540,000
National Assn of Broadcasters $7,470,000
DowDuPont $7,196,570
Facebook Inc $6,970,000
Amazon.com $6,890,000
Lockheed Martin $6,806,111
Verizon Communications $6,720,000

But that's just lobbying by US industries. Of course foreign governments also lobby the US:

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/08/foreign-interests-fara-lobby-watch-exclusive/

Patrick says

lobbying by US industries

You can combine those entries to get a clearer picture at the level of industries:

MEDICAL: $58,224,670
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America $15,717,500
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $11,822,346
American Hospital Assn $11,364,824
American Medical Assn $11,240,000
Bayer AG $8,080,000 (which is a German drug company)
Subtotal medical $58,224,670

BUSINESS/COMMERCE: $55,020,000
US Chamber of Commerce $43,700,000
Business Roundtable $11,320,000
Subtotal: $55,020,000

TELECOM: $32,316,000
AT&T Inc $10,344,000
Comcast Corp $7,782,000
National Assn of Broadcasters $7,470,000
Verizon Communications $6,720,000
Subtotal: $32,316,000

MILITARY: 30,492,681
Northrop Grumman $8,950,000
Boeing Co $7,540,000
DowDuPont $7,196,570
Lockheed Martin $6,806,111
Subtotal: 30,492,681

Realtors(TM) $27,330,272
National Assn of Realtors $27,330,272

TECH: $24,870,000
Alphabet Inc $11,010,000
Facebook Inc $6,970,000
Amazon.com $6,890,000
Subtotal: $24,870,000

As you can see, the medical sector is the largest. Also, these numbers understate the total, because they omit revolving door and investment opportunities.

Patrick says

There is an almost perfect inverse relation between how much your work directly benefits others, and remuneration. The result is a toxic political culture of resentment.

There's a real easy solution to that. People are free to start their own company, this way, all the remuneration will only go to them.

See how easy that was to fix.

Patnet'ers aren't the smartest bunch, and even we realize the system doesn't work. When the lowest common denominator in society knows it's time to change, change isn't far behind.