In other words, more and more people are being employed in pointless jobs. There isn't enough actual work to go around, but everyone needs to be "employed". An

In other words, more and more people are being employed in pointless jobs. There isn't enough actual work to go around, but everyone needs to be "employed". And since they subconsciously know that their jobs are pointless, they need to justify their existence through posturing and status and "visibility" and report production (which nobody reads) and endless meetings. Lots of activity, but little actual achievement. Middle management only ever grows @1, because everyone in the middle is in the same boat, and having more people under you makes you more important and less likely to lose your job or have your department cut. @1: With the exception of the massive job purges the mega-corporations do once a decade or so.