The problem with the banking system is that it is a state-sanctioned cartel.

One more point that I left out in my earlier reply that is likely germaine as well.

People are fed up with government and "agencies" both so lets look around.

President - lawyer
First lady - lawyer
Supreme court - all lawyers
Senate - majority lawyers
House - 435 lots of lawyers
DOJ - lots and lots of lawyers
Many cabinet appointees are lawyers

Is it any wonder people arent happy with them? Congress collectively has a public approval rating im the single digits and has been that way since the turn of the millenium

It would be great to see an efficient policing system. One that gave great customer service.

It's a good point. Personally I have a hard time with the Accounting profession. There are producers in every field. Maybe in a gulch our experiences would be so positive, it might change our thinking completely on what these professionals can offer of value.

Lawyers get a bad rap because so many people only have negative experiences with them.

Over and above the portrayals in the movies, TV and books, the ambulance chaser ads. etc

I am partly to blame for giving lawyers a bad rap in here. I like patent lawyers and real estate lawyers. Engineers and doctors have had an animosity toward lawyers for plenty of good reasons over the years.

As for the bankers, there certainly are some good bankers, too. John Allison comes to mind. With banking, however, the entire system is based on a deception and is a well-entrenched system to reward spending and punish saving. It is designed to punish people who "play by the rules".

You 're so much more than a professor. I 'm not sure why the study of law is taking such a bad wrap the last day in here. All lawyers are not ambulance chasers. All bankers are not corrupt either. Will we have a banking system in the gulch? Understanding the law can be a worthy effort it 's how documents like the Constitution came to be so well written. Madison, a lawyer who chose not to practice law, wrote the majority of the amendments in the Bill of Rights.

Other than the judge, there were no lawyers to my knowledge in AS. However, in our Gulch, we would need lawyers for the following: 1) handling any dismissals from Gulch society; 2) real estate agreements; 3) perhaps patent enforcement (but I hope not); and 4) handling minor disagreements.

But Jefferson and Washington were so much more than lawyers.

I don't remember any either. Not sure if there would ever be a need in a real Gulch. Seems to me we would not need so many lawyers if we did not have so many over complicated laws. I would expect laws in the Gulch to be simple to follow.

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Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and George Washington were all lawyers. Judges are lawyers with rare exception. I am sure we would have no use for the founding fathers in the Gulch.