You must not have worked in a huge organization. They are everywhere: people doing nothing at all, or working on projects that any fool can see will never ship.

A lot of this boils down to a very old question: why do we operate this machine we call the economy? Do we do it for our own interest, or is it an end in itself that uses us? What are we working for here? It's a question that if followed goes beyond economics and gets quite metaphysical.