> the real challenges of not being able to obtain a lawyer if things truly aren't fair This is underappreciated by the well-off: the very possibility of a coun

> the real challenges of not being able to obtain a lawyer if things truly aren't fair This is underappreciated by the well-off: the very possibility of a counterparty being able to afford a lawyer raises the floor of illegality. If you and the people around you couldn't ever afford a lawyer... that floor lowers drastically. I have a few lawyer friends who volunteer at various legal aid organizations. Their most numerous cases? Landlords doing obviously-illegal things. But without legal representation, who's to stop them? Or, to be fair to law-abiding small-scale landlords, the opposite situation with bad tenants? Access to the law isn't just a "nice to have". It's a pillar of not-ripping-each-others-throats-out society.