Even professional services frequently focus on compliance and regulation rather than strategic growth. These roles absorb labor but do not generate the compounding productivity that comes from deploying capital against ambitious, scalable ventures. The result is an economy that is busy but not dynamic, and employed workers who are far less empowered by the value their labor creates.

This is the moneyshot.

Growth in compliance-type roles is not true economic growth. Nor is growth in people whose primary ability is to "navigate the system"