"But I think most would also agree that if all corporate lawyers, bank lobbyists, or marketing gurus were to similarly vanish in a puff of smoke, the world would be at least a little bit more bearable."

I remember just yesterday there was a great article on HN that discussed bullshit jobs and counted corporate lawyers towards the "goons". The rationale was that if nobody has them, nobody else needs them.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bullshit-jobs-australia-2...

Who exists to enforce the rules? Contracts? Etc. I feel like this sounds great on the surface, but is quite flawed.

Agreed. Lawyers (and by extension, the legal system) must exist to ensure order and keep the system fair for as many people as possible. They don’t always achieve that goal, but removing them entirely would make things 100x worse. My favorite example is the ACLU.

It's kind of like the military in that sense. Anything 'PvP' falls in that category.

You can put them in charge of a country, as long as they are effective.

"Hate the game, not the player", might be appropriate here, but even in corporate games players can simply be so ineffective that they should be replaced by someone who can actually play the game.