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From: nelson_p@apollo.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE: Japan
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Date: 6 Apr 88 14:34:00 GMT
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>Once upon a time there was a land that was free of nasty creatures like
>lawyers and MBA's. Everyone was free to do what they pleased, so they did.
  [ ... ]
>Then there had to be someone to argue about the laws when conflicts arose, so
>lawyers came into being. 
>Whats the point? Simply that lawyers are a result of our human greed and 
>mistrust, they are not the cause. I have been an engineer (making computer 
  [ ... ]
>If you want to do away with lawyers, go find a few honest people that keep 
>their promises. Then put them in a business where they lose money by telling


 Oh, come on!  Nobody, as far as I know, has suggested that we could 
 do without any lawyers.  The question is why we seem to need so many
 of them.  Japan, the western European countries, and others seem to 
 be able to resolve their civil disputes with a lot smaller percentage
 of lawyers.  It has been estimated that within a few years the U.S.
 will have one million lawyers!  This is ridiculous.
 
 It also represents a trend in this country toward the so-called 
 'service' economy.  Fewer and fewer of us actually make our living
 by MAKING anything.  When there's lots of money to be made in invest-
 ments, or in buying somebody else's company, or in selling somebody
 else's (say, Japanese) products or stealing somebody else's idea and
 hiring some lawyers to cover your ass or hiring some lawyers to beat
 down the competition, or making laws to restrict foreign competition
 then why bother to come up with a new product or process on our own?

                                           --Peter Nelson