Lawyers: they'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes

**jrandom** · 24th February 2012, 18:03

This rant triggered by http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6476...ccupy-Auckland.

Don't blame the protesters (silly though they may be) for that waste of public money. Blame the lawyers who connive throughout their incestuous industry to charge hourly rates that bear no relation whatsoever to the actual value or difficulty of the work they do.

Solicitors do not have mystical capabilities that the rest of us lack. They are simply professional form-filler-outers and regurgitators of books that other people have written. The amount of training they undertake and their general worth to society should result in rates of pay in a ballpark with what other tradespeople with similar quantities of training and experience can charge.

An electrician with three years of training and ten years of industry experience will cost you $80 an hour.

Yet a lawyer with three years of training can somehow spend ten years filling out land-transfer forms and kissing arse, and then move into a corner office and start charging $450 an hour.

I believe the rottenness in this corner of society to be an unfortunate emergent behaviour of the underlying way the world works. Lawyers are in a position to strangle everyone else, and so they do.

But I never cease to be amazed that people are prepared to be a part of it while keeping a straight face.

Human nature can be a sorry-arsed thing.

And if any partner in any posh CBD law firm is reading this post, know that your wealth is ill-gotten. You are a parasite.

I challenge any cunt out there to disagree with me.

**neels** · 24th February 2012, 18:14

*hopes hdc spots this thread*

**Coldrider** · 24th February 2012, 18:40

Security looks to be a a good winna.

**scissorhands** · 24th February 2012, 18:40

Alongside them you need advertising and marketing, real estate agents, funeral parlours, rest home companies and and

**Ronin** · 24th February 2012, 18:40

Originally Posted by jrandom

I challenge any cunt out there to disagree with me.

I disagree somewhat.

And yes, I am a cunt.

**James Deuce** · 24th February 2012, 18:49

Given my experiences with lawyers over the last year, I'd be much happier with a lawyer who'd openly laugh in my face with malignant glee at thought of being allowed start working on just one of the issues I find myself beset with.

**oldrider** · 24th February 2012, 18:51

Why do Universities keep on churning lawyers out year after year when there is a gross oversupply of them anyway!

What do they do with their time? .... Make work and create a climate of crime and unenforceable laws that needs their specific high cost interpretation!

Crime seems to be a major growth industry in this country .... have you ever wondered why?

Ministers of the church would not exist without sinners .... why would they want to be rid of them?

Lawyers depend on crime, social and legal confusion .... why would they want it otherwise?

Parliament is full of people who need to keep the negative things of society alive and well, ever noticed who and what make up the majority?

Might not be true but it's food for thought just the same!

**Coldrider** · 24th February 2012, 19:05

Most of them settle for the corporate sector, for a reasonable salary.......if they can survive the politics. The rest have a baby and stay home.

**ellipsis** · 24th February 2012, 19:09

Originally Posted by jrandom

I challenge any cunt out there to disagree with me.

...cant disagree with facts....

**Bikemad** · 24th February 2012, 19:17

Lawyers: they'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes

any chance we can start with those telefuckinmarketerpricks and work our way up to lawyer types?