[quote=Operation]Oh my god. Armageddon has arrived. The lawyers are out of work. Crap, this could get ugly. Fast. Big, scary, evil roaming hordes of blood-thirsty cannibals living off the flesh of a tattered civilization lost to a moral decay, Goldman Sacs and peak oil.
Kids, breakout what ever weapon you have. I don’t care if it’s a baseball bat, gun….hell, even a damn 2×4 will do. Once the blood-thirsty zombie army of attorneys has to start giving up the 250K/yr jobs, private club memberships and starbucks lattes in 24K gold to-go mugs they are going to have to eat…something. The Ivy league zombie lawyers will eat the brains of a small child in seconds. Nasty bloodsuckers!
Seriously though, when did lawyers actually make something that contributed to GDP?
Finally, to all you paranoid, end-of-civilization heads espousing the eminent coming of ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’, you need to take off the tinfoil, back away from the PC you’ve been sitting at for days straight and go outside and get some toxic, soot-laden air into your rotting, diseased lungs.
It’s going to be just fine. Really.[/quote]
Lawyers contribute very little of worth to the GDP, and I count myself among that lot. The career decision has paid off for me financially for the past couple of decades, but I would be lying if I said that I was happy with what I contribute to society on a daily basis. So sue me 😉
That said, you are really fooling yourself if you think that unemployed people – regardless of how much they made or what value they serve to society – are not YOUR problem. Very soon, the volume of unemployed lawyers, accountants, Ivy league brats, vermin, whatever the hell you want to call them – is going to affect YOU, my friend. Because when they don’t have jobs, they don’t buy. Period. And the wheels of commerce will slowly grind to a halt. Unless, of course, you are fortunate to have a job that is in no way dependent upon another living being to buy (directly or indirectly) what you are selling, making or providing. What are you, an assassin or something? Are you the only person on this board NOT affected by the economy?
I love how people only envision one of two possibilities in the future: everything is either going to be “just fine”, or it’s going to be “Armageddon”. WTF?? Is your life really that black and white? How’s that level of nuanced thinking worked out for you so far?
