Ghost jobs should be illegal. Any org found posting a ghost job should be required to pay a year's salary to every applicant, and everyone involved in authorizing the post should be barred from working in HR for life.

The company I worked for during the pandemic is still hiring for every single position in the company. All of these positions are filled, they just keep the postings up to say they're hiring and occasionally find someone willing to do the job cheaper(what happened to me).