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"... everything in this article reads like bizarro-land." Yes, that is how things will look if you live in a sane country like Denmark. But as the top post in
by jingo 12y ago
"... everything in this article reads like bizarro-land."
Yes, that is how things will look if you live in a sane country like Denmark.
But as the top post in this thread acknowledges, in bizarro-land people structure their lives (and "careers") according to the television. And TV says being a lawyer can only lead to good things. Moreover, most bizarro-land parents will agree with the television set.
There was a Congressional study in bizarro-land a number of years back. The title went something like: "Bizarro-land. Can we sue our way to prosperity?"
There will always be lots of litigation in bizarro-land. Because that is how they do business. When business succeeds, they sue. When business fails, they sue. Litigation is itself big business.
If you read HN, then you know about the USPTO. The bizarro-land government issues rights to sue called patents and trademarks. Needless to say, these rights to sue are extremely popular there; probably more popular in bizarro-land than anywhere else in the world. Why? In bizarro-land, one can never have too many potential lawsuits ready to file.
Can we sue our way to prosperity? "Yes, we can."
There can never be too many lawyers in bizarro-land.
I hope in DK that the taxes people pay go back to the people in some form.
Because in bizarro-land the taxes people pay go to businesses that would otherwise fail. Banks get "bailed out". Universities go after the student loan programs (as mentioned in the article). Pharmaceutical companies go after the medical benefits programs. And so on. Consumers can no longer afford the overpriced products and services of these failing businesses, so the businesses go after the government coffers: get the government to pay for them!
Denmark is one of the better countries you could live in anywhere in the world. Count your blessings.
- jingo 12y agoQuote from a bizarro-land lawyer who posts on HN who says he chose his job because he likes confrontation but then deletes his confrontational posts: "You've got the causality reversed. We're not bizarro world because we sue so much; we sue so much because we're bizarro world. To put it another way, it's not surprising that a small, high-trust, high-equality, high-consensus society like Denmark has much less need for formal dispute resolution than a large, low-trust, low-equality, low-concensus society like the U.S." Notice how he shifts from bizarro-land to "bizarro world". The rest of the world is not in all cases just like bizarro-land, or much worse. But when you are in bizarro-land, that's how the media often portrays it. And perhaps believing this makes it easier to tolerate bizarro-land and being stuck in it. Those with such a world view have my greatest sympathies. "... low trust, low equality, low consensus society." Sounds wonderful. What was that old Star Trek episode with the "energy force" shaped like a ball spinning near the ceiling causing everyone on the Enterprise to fight each other?
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