A lot of other professions produce essentially solely economic value. Art and journalism are sort of inverted: people happen to be willing to pay for it which a

A lot of other professions produce essentially solely economic value. Art and journalism are sort of inverted: people happen to be willing to pay for it which allows it to be produced, but the real value to society is external to that transaction. Thus: museums and archives. It doesn’t make sense to preserve analogous records for most other professions.