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It's mostly just the US judicial system. The US has about 3x the amount of lawyers per capita compared to other Western nations. The glorification of lawyers in
by ahartmetz 3y ago
It's mostly just the US judicial system. The US has about 3x the amount of lawyers per capita compared to other Western nations. The glorification of lawyers in US media is sometimes a bit sickening as a non-US citizen.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoIt's a weird quirk that having so many lawyers hasn't driven down the cost of their services but seems to have instead driven up demand.
- tim333 3y agoI think cause and effect is a litigious system -> demand for lawyers -> lots of them, well paid. Some of the system being like that probably comes partly from the founding idea of "a government of laws and not of men" and the US constitution.