Blame Ide for America's problems

[Ed Anger]

Poop.

[11B4V]

11B4 doesn't have a side, so he can't win.  Of course, he can still lose.

I already stated my side. 

[11B4V]

See, lynchings have tapered off. That's good.

[Ideologue]

I'll look in the Best Buy DVD section.

Too expensive.  You're thinking like an Elite.

[Ed Anger]

I'll look in the Best Buy DVD section.

Too expensive.  You're thinking like an Elite.

[Ideologue]

Anyway, while I applaud the dropping of the lawyer overproduction factoid, it's clear the author has no idea what's actually happening in legal education, and the idea that I (or most J.D.s) may be considered "elite" or ever had serious aspirations to the level of, say, a Malthus or garbon, is overstated.  We simply wanted to join the middle class--or rejoin it, in my case, given my parents' standard of living.

DID NOT WORK OUT.

It's a mild but crucial mischaracterization.  And this is the issue for many Millennials--not unreasonable greed on our parts as individuals, but a society that has no place for us at any level but the bottom (if that), alienated even from each other by our instability, economic languish, and the loss of confidence and mental health that comes from taking stock of our lives and failing to reconcile that inventory with our parents', school's, and society's empty promises.

It doesn't help that we lie to each other fucking constantly about how good we're doing in a socially pathological case of "fake it till you make it," and value the badges of middle class prosperity as much our parents did, even though for the most part we'll never have them.

[Admiral Yi]

I think you're being a bit disingenuous Log.  People generally don't go to law school with the aspiration of making median salary.

[Sheilbh]

I think you're being a bit disingenuous Log.  People generally don't go to law school with the aspiration of making median salary.

Median salary isn't the same as being middle class. I think most people go to law school with the aspiration of being upper middle class.

And there's a significant minority who go without even expecting that. They want, desperately, to work in criminal law or family law and they pay's shit.

[CountDeMoney]

I already stated my side. 

Between protecting the Elites and the inevitable Post-Antibioticalypse, you better have your riot and repel gear strapped on tight.

[Admiral Yi]

Median salary isn't the same as being middle class. I think most people go to law school with the aspiration of being upper middle class.

It's a good approximation.  I agree about upper middle class, which incidentally is around where elite status begins.  And it's certainly not the first rung on the middle class ladder that the Log was intimating.

[fhdz]

the Log

He's Log! He's Log! He's big, he's heavy, he's wood! He's Log! He's Log! He's better than bad; he's good!

[PDH]

Somebody's been sampling the malbec again tonight.

[11B4V]

I already stated my side. 

Between protecting the Elites and the inevitable Post-Antibioticalypse, you better have your riot and repel gear strapped on tight.

Remember,

"Front Toward Enemy"

[fhdz]

Somebody's been sampling the malbec again tonight.

No, just the Ren & Stimpy.

[Capetan Mihali]

I think you're being a bit disingenuous Log.  People generally don't go to law school with the aspiration of making median salary.

And there's a significant minority who go without even expecting that. They want, desperately, to work in criminal law [...] and they pay's shit.