MRSA says hi.Heronblade said:Not really no, at least in the sense that I mean. I'm not talking about personal investment.Blood Brain Barrier said:If you swap "judicial system" with the appropriate word, this applies to pretty much any profession: doctors, nurses, teachers, public servants...Heronblade said:OT: lawyers
Between the vulture like attitude towards even the most minor of mishaps, the general disregard for what I consider their primary job, ensuring that the judicial system acts to aid the public, and the incredibly inflated hourly wages (even when compared to professions with similarly high training requirements), there is no other group that I feel has in general earned more in the way of scorn. There are indeed good people in that profession, but they are quite rare.
A doctor that doesn't give a damn about the health of others, but does the job for other reasons, is still doing a great deal of good for society. Not as much as they might be if fully invested, but still. A lawyer on the other hand is in a position where if they don't care, can do far more harm than good overall. In fact, doing harm is usually the more profitable option. As a result, we have entire teams of lawyers choosing to take action that is against the good of society. The equivalent behavior with a doctor might be a surgeon leaving a poor man on the table to bleed to death and heading off to work on the nose job of a rich client, and yet the lawyers aren't in danger of prosecution by pulling such crap, funny how that works.
OT: Not sure exactly what profession this is, but those who have power in the pharmaceutical industry are among the worst. They are deliberately keeping effective treatment options from hitting the market because they can't make as much profit from it. Giving extremely high dosages that cause side effects then selling us things to treat these side effects. Horrible industry.