Musing: Japan has a lot of "useless jobs", but these are basically social help in disguise: they keep money flowing to a lot of the population, including the el

Musing: Japan has a lot of "useless jobs", but these are basically social help in disguise: they keep money flowing to a lot of the population, including the elderly. I wonder if the ad industry is a version of that: advertisers pay a lot of money and that money flows to overpaid programmers (us) making the latest JavaScript framework to, who knows what "world-critical" function. Hollywood also has the strange accounting that most of a movie's profits is spent in advertising it, i.e. the money flows into the studio's subsidiary that pockets the money and spends a fraction of it to print and put up posters. I wonder if these subsidiaries are in tax havens...