I agree — Camille Paglia makes the excellent argument that something similar happened in higher ed/academia long ago. Useless graduates of useless disciplines wheedled their way into administration, which requires little skill or talent as mentioned, and created even more administrative jobs for themselves, like cancerous cells reproducing out of control, pushing out many legitimate teachers in the process. Eventually, the only ones left were the untalented admins posing as professors and trading favors for tenure at vanity conferences.

Anyway, Paglia and you say it much better than I can — it is not a good idea to leave those “administrative” types to their own devices because they will inevitably come back and deliver some great blow to your society.

Here’s her essay — it’s called Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf. What a title hahaha. https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2017/09/Arion-Camille-Paglia-Junkbonds-Corporate-Raiders.pdf

That said, make no mistake, I’m not willing to take one for the team and go back to the office — it’s too irrational. There must be some solution to giving these people purpose other than letting them babysit skilled workers and pretend they’re in charge 😆