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The lawyer mentality

Lawyers love bureaucratic and legislative complexity. As one of them said to me : "More laws means people are more insecure. It means more demand and higher hourly wages. I'm increasing my rate 30% next week."

Too many lawyers?

It is usually small businesses that must cope with the most severe
regulations. They are the ones who get squeezed by lawyers big time.

Big corps do not suffer as much with their legal departments and especially with their political pull which even allows them to get welfare. It is a luxury small companies can ill afford, political relations being time-intensive investments.

One more example of bureaucracy (government) breeding bureaucracy (corporations). It is true that we live in a capitalist system. That is a system that encourages passive ownership of capital as the best investment. This is not free market. That is a system that encourages entrepreneurship as the best investment.

Is the current lawyer mentality a result of bureaucratic over-regulation? Your opinion.