| I didn't see anyone say that lawyers had a 100% profit margin so discussing all their business difficulties is fallacious. Regardless, these lawyers have still made money most of us wish they hadn't, and in doing so they've taken it from people who earned it. That the barbarians lost some of their plunder in fires they had needlessly started was probably little comfort to the villagers... Your point regarding law students having crippling debt is an emotional red herring. Most people here have or have had huge student loans or are otherwise personally taking a large financial gamble for their careers/businesses. You also mention the difficulties of paying employees when on contract yourself when missing that everyone else is in the same boat too, trying to make payroll in an uncertain world. And it's amusing that you mention legal difficulties as you're talking about exactly the people who, collectively, cause those difficulties for everyone. If not for the sort of lawyers who needlessly sued iFone, there wouldn't be the sort of lawyers who'd defend a company skipping out on a legal bill like that, and so forth. There's risk in everything from fry-cook to indie iOS app developer. Not only is it callous of the people who suffer the least from economic downturn (the upper class, most educated) to complain about problems facing everyone, but it's also another attempt to muddy the issue. The lawyers alone chose to be there and they alone profited. The money iFone wasted defending itself from this attack could have gone to providing services to customers, wages to employees, and profits to investors. |