you made critical statements regarding all attorneys-why is it that you may and then admonish others for doing the same thing? The point of the survey is to group careers. The overall flaw to the study rests in the “contribute to society’s well-being.” What nonsense.
This is an inherently collectivist concept that suggests one's purpose in life is to benefit a collective. It's probably most likely why the answers are skewed. But it's fair game to talk about which groups contribute in a free market:
"The professional businessman is the field agent of the army whose lieutenant-commander-in-chief is the scientist. The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor to industrial plants, and transforms them into material products that fill men’s physical needs and expand the comfort of men’s existence. By creating a mass market, he makes these products available to every income level of society. By using machines, he increases the productivity of human labor, thus raising labor’s economic rewards. By organizing human effort into productive enterprises, he creates employment for men of countless professions. He is the great liberator who, in the short span of a century and a half, has released men from bondage to their physical needs, has released them from the terrible drudgery of an eighteen-hour workday of manual labor for their barest subsistence, has released them from famines, from pestilences, from the stagnant hopelessness and terror in which most of mankind had lived in all the pre-capitalist centuries—and in which most of it still lives, in non-capitalist countries."
seems pretty consistent with the comments in this post @ Adam

Excellent!
Thank you for so many worthy contributions lately.
Regards,
O.A.

Oops....That's what I get for eating lunch and posting at the same time. Adam, not Alan.

Alan Alinsky?

Saul's step brother...?

Who's Alan. lol

@sdesapio
I've gone down that road twice. He blames it on his phone. I have since given up on the entire package...

What is social production? Examples please.

Who are you responding to Adam? Try hitting the reply button underneath the comment you want to respond to.

Sorry, I only answer questions from individuals who are willing to engage in intelligent conversation and exchange of ideas. Statements from those with closed minds do not require an answer.

You are correct. I've read several of Adam's posts. He seems to be following Alinsky (Rules For Radicals) whose Fourth Rule is "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage" Don't waste your time or your lunch hour.

Alan, your're talking of something you obviously know very little, if anything, about. If by those "enabling injustice" are the lawyers working for the NAACP and other like-minded organizations, you're probably right. The law profession has its share of socialist-collectivists, but so do most other professions. You need to do some homework before you open your mouth, otherwise you just look silly. BTW, thanks for posting when you did so I could respond on my lunch hour.

Maybe if America owned up to us being collectivists, then the administers of social production would be given their proper respect.

@Dragonlady:

Lawyers are also the ones enabling injustice. They're supposed to be amoral hired guns as I understand that field. So, to say that any are good is something of a "rah-rah Amerikah" cheer, isn't it? It's really just saying that you agree with their activities?

Great article. It's refreshing to see some Objectivism in print.

Teachers are in the top three???? If that's the case, why are our kids so ignorant when they come out of college? And, as usual, lawyers get the worst (underserved) rating. I've worked with lawyers and judges for over 40 years, and although there are some really bad apples in the group the good ones far outnumber the bad. People forget that lawyers are often the only thing that stands between the individual and injustice (i.e., Mr. Zimmerman's lawyer). No, I'm not a lawyer, but I've worked with many fine ones.