[arjie]

Statement fails to take into account all factors by using a contrived example. It isn't just about cleaning the beach. It's about cleaning the beach in the same way as everyone else. It's about a long-term sustainable solution. What happens when the lawyer is gone? Should you find another funding lawyer or is it better to have everyone get into the habit of cleaning the beach? Then once it becomes a community activity, it doesn't matter if the lawyer exists or not. It becomes a thing that people do.

To address your second comment, we must consider the possibility that people are interested in long-term solutions to problems. What happens when the person who thinks that his profession makes too much money has given away all his money? Is the problem fixed?

The world isn't binary. When someone says "I want to help the poor", there's a world of meaning you can gather from context. We aren't AliceBot, we're humans. And humans are fairly good at understanding statements like that. After all, one way to help people is to kill oneself in a manner that preserves organs for donation, but you'd dismiss this kind of meaning even coming from a down and out guy who makes nothing and has no family. Why? What's he implying when he says he wants to help people?