And every doctor keeping you well (with rules to prevent scam treatment), every teacher educating you (with rules to maintain standards of education), every defence lawyer keeping you from unjust prosecution (with rules requiring people to actually know the laws first), and every civil rights activist and trade union worker trying to make the rules better.
"The establishment" is a relative term. It is all those %!! over there.
All those you mention are a part of it, a grinding machine that gobbles up people's lives and destroys them, because rules.