Also known as "rent seeking" behaviour. Administrators who are successful in their careers are those who are ambitious about moving up, which requires continual expansion of the departments and work that they oversee. They want more budget to hire more people, they want more work to justify the budget, they produce no wealth and generally just collect rent off of everyone subjected to their administrative powers.

> There are also self-reinforcing effects in licensing professions, which demand more qualifications, feeding the vocational training industry. Same in finance, with Dodd-Frank, AML and KYC (all justified by fake 'wars on terror' and 'war on drugs').

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe accounting is one such discipline. 90% of it could have been automated out of existence decades ago - the CPA industry exists to ensure the continuation of the employment of the people in the industry by artificially making the whole thing more complicated than it has any reason to be.