[noonespecial]

Here's a viewpoint that's even more scary than a bunch of villainous lawyers out to take advantage of the poor sheeple: The lawyers, the accountants, the CEO's, even judges and juries are just out working hard, trying the best they can to get along in life. None of them are particularly scummy. The rottenness is just an emergent property.

Lawyers just happen to live on the fault-lines of the tectonic plates of greed and self interest.

[nazgulnarsil]

It isn't just an emergent property. When you undermine contract law and private property rights the whole system turns to shit.

Libertarians complain loudly about things like guns and drugs, but the erosion of the backbone of an economy is a much more insidious problem.

[roguecoder]

As long as patents are part of the problem the solution is not more property rights.