Bah, silly Ashes Emberblade!
Without mission runners there'd be umm, well errr, there'd be something lacking from Eve indeed!
To be slightly more serious, mission runner and other empire hugger types (which i presume is more the crux of your banality) bring in a metrick fuckton of subs on top of all the cool types who only ever pvp like real spartan men. With all that sub money, ccp can keep all the dev going to concentrate on all facets of the game. And pay for all the sekret messaging/irc servers etc as well (put in to appease the conspiracy types.)
Eve is a sandbox that everyone can play in, stop trying to piss in the sand
