Lawyers are a necessary facet of civilization. Used car salesmen are a necessary evil of capitalism. Bad lawyers are empowered by capitalism.
The reason that capitalist societies have lawyers and realtors and accountants and advertisers and paparazzi and newscasters and union presidents and all the other professions that we love to hate is that
capitalism works. It has created an enormous amount of surplus wealth (or "capital") that does not have to be spent on bare necessities.
Can't say much about used car salesmen in Madagascar, as I've never heard of any, although, apparently, they exist
I thought all they had in Madagascar are dancing lemurs. Maybe I've spent too much time on Youtube. Can't get enough of them dancin' lemurs!
Very good, but you could say the same about a lot of doctors, and they don't get the same bad press lawyers do.
They're sure starting to! The Washington Post just published the statistic that 500,000 Americans are killed every year by
medical mistakes! That's way, way more than the recreational drugs that Congress is so determined to control, and a whole order of magnitude more than auto accidents!
Okay, who knows what the filthiest thing in a hospital room is?
The doctor's necktie, which he waves in your face! Even his shoes get cleaned once in a while but most neckties are never cleaned. Nurses are campaigning to get doctors to stop wearing ties.
I am to old to go to jail, and if I go , There is free food free clothing , free medical attention and free room and board , it is retirement
Yeah, I guess if you enjoy being butt-fucked on a regular basis. To each his own.
The system is rigged to where one is forced to hire a lawyer for something as simple as child support hearings.
Child support hearings,
simple??? Good grief, what country do you live in? Certainly not the United States.
The one lawyer I am acquainted with is frustrated that he has to do something very corporate-y to pay off his student loans. He'd rather be fighting for the rights of the under-represented. But when you have a 50K debt over your head... Gotta suck it up and hustle for the man.
Doctors have the same problem. That's why they don't start working for charity until they're older. For that matter, a sizeable number of college graduates in every field come out with massive debt. Considering the great number of college graduates who are unemployed and sleeping on their parents' sofa, I think it's time to wonder why so many people think they have to go to college. There are a whole lot of really important jobs that don't require a degree. Maybe they don't pay as well, but you don't need as big an income if you don't have a student loan to pay off. Besides, some of them pay very well if you're good at it. Check the stats in any small town in America and it's very likely that the most prosperous person who's not in the city government feeding at the public trough is the
plumber.
Instead of going to college, apprentice yourself to a plumber. After your apprenticeship (which might not be any more agonizing than a university degree program, and it doesn't require getting shitface-drunk every week) you open your own shop and hire your own apprentices.
You are nice and polite referring to legal lairs ( lawyers ) It is disgusting how they advertise their service
I (fondly) remember the days when lawyers did not advertise. It was considered unprofessional. They had a listing in the Yellow Pages telling you what kind of cases they specialized in, and that was all. There was plenty of work so they didn't need to advertise.
I find it fascinating that the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and many other professional organizations (even morticians and beauticians!) have gotten laws passed in every state that effectively limit the number of people who can get training and licenses in those professions. But with lawyers there's a glut. The reason they go around trying to drum up business is that there are too many of them to survive on the cases that people bring to them.
