Sometimes I think about how 'the system' intentionally draws certain types of people into careers, based on how useful and disposable a tool they will be. By defining the rewards of the job at each level, and defining public opinion about that career, and then actively steering 'suitable' people into it from a young age.
Like with public school elementary teachers. What type of person, in general, would want to have a career that's basically one step up from a daycare babysitter and pays very little, but they get to be the most important person in the room and control dozens of less powerful humans (the kids), and get 30 paid holiday days per year, plus paid 30 personal/sick days, and on top of that get two months of vacation per year. My opinion: It's designed to attract lazy small-minded people who would not have achieved anything better in life but don't want to be an office drone or a manual laborer. People who are powerless and have no connections, but want a position of some power and authority over others. People that would accept any programming, right or wrong, as long as it's official. And then pass it on by programming other people who are too young to defend themselves or know any better. Isn't that the type of person a corrupt system would want to be in charge of children that it wants to damage and enslave?
This type of carefully planned selection would also be used to attract an ideal type of person into desiring to become a university professor. What would you say the system wants for that role? Intelligent (but not wise or smart) people who are ambitious, think of themselves as extremely capable but would not succeed in 'the real world' outside of academia, arrogant but easily manipulated, open-minded but shallow, people who have no respect for the opinion of 'the common man,' but fear authority and would never threaten the system that pays them?
Another example - think about urban street cops. What type of person would best serve the role of a dutiful agent that would risk his life daily for little pay, while adhering to thousands of rules and laws and always at the risk of public scrutiny, in a neverending battle against endless criminals that don't have to play by any rules? Why would anyone really want to do this for a living? How does the system attract such people and evaluate them, and reward the ones that fit the role best?
Obviously there are good and amazing people in all lines of work, but I'm talking about the general overall scheme. If I'm not wrong in theory, it's interesting to imagine how the system determines what type of person it wants for a certain career, then defines public opinion about that role, then selects and recruits and rewards the people that most perfectly fit that role.