At the moment a quarter of the population spends their time watching TV and society has a costly bureaucratic infrastructure to funnel money around a variety of government agencies to and for these people. (I have some experience with the English system and that feels decidely sub-optimal.)

So, in the new system you'd still have a quarter of the population watching TV but you'd also have a bunch of bureaucrats and money free to spend on, say, healthcare and health promotion.

I accept that I am overly optimistic about this.