Hypothetical problems are still problems, and they still can be solved. I think the best case of that is the tower of Hanoi. Most abstract problems are made up, here is one:
If you add something to itself, what do you get?
I just made that up. The solution is: you get twice of that something.
With that said, I disagree that these problems are made up. I can see that it is the case in some cases or the majority cases of an industry (the software industry being one of them) but it's unfair to say that all of them are made up.
psychology problems: I've seen some terrible stuff from psychologically damaged people. If a psychiatrist would've helped them, then a few calamities could've been prevented.
Also, I've seen useful things that laywers do. One time a family member had an issue with a big company. Without a laywer he wouldn't be able to right the wrong that they did to him.
Ok I can contextualize it better perhaps: life disagreements and emotional issues are real. We’re squishy biological creatures in a physical world we don’t entirely understand.
Our framework for solving them, of anointing experts undemocratically who are afforded special say in solving localized trade disputes and creating a market for casual babysitting of adult emotions is pandering to selling frameworks of agency that are outdated.
Historically it was a matter of literal ability to educate and train at scale not existing. It does now.
Law as we know it is hundreds of years old and obviously not working for the species.
Psychology is rapidly being superseded by “take this pill”.
We don’t need to cling to old solutions to problems.
YouTube broke while trying to fingerprint a legal debate of copyright, it became a circular mess. It’s obvious how we’re repeating ourselves: Dems quietly inflate inequality & keep political prisoners, the GOP gaudily so. Enjoy your exceptional legal system.
Sure there’s some psychology, the basics, that “normalize” folks through curve fitting responses. There’s a shit ton of terrible, useless frameworks out there, many do more harm than good. I’d prefer to put my money on a pill then that normalizes my brain as I design rather than some experts favorite rhetorical mess.
We “make up” problems and invent solutions at scale for people to abide social norms of needing a job.
Feeding oneself and learning about the world is work enough.
We don’t need all these “jobs”.
It’s social control at scale. Necessary evil, but we can do it differently now.