Don't forget to add the $50k per capita share of the national debt, or the more uplifting calculation of $90k per actual tax-paying worker. So that person is wo

Don't forget to add the $50k per capita share of the national debt, or the more uplifting calculation of $90k per actual tax-paying worker. So that person is working towards $255k of unavoidable debt on $36k a year before they can even start thinking about a house or retirement savings. And lawyers don't really make anything the world wants to buy, in the domestic market they are competing with a glut of other lawyers in similar situations. Nor do they even have the romantic "starving artist" narrative to console themselves with like the MFA grads. Maybe the boomers will offer good money for healthy organs, or maybe selling a kidney will just get some surplus MREs from WWIII to eat as people huddle around the campfire in the badlands. Ok the last part's a joke, but it's not a brilliant scenario.