Yeah, for law I imagine these "nice" beginnings were 2000 years ago at best. If they even existed at all. But all these jobs where talking to other humans is paramount will be dominated by extroverted quacks by default. Same goes for the capital raising college dropout pseudo-tech-bros. They were never nice, they just weren't so engaged in public discourse before, when billion dollar net worths still meant you actually had revenue and not just a vague trendy idea.

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sumitkumar 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not that far. Lawyers had a great deal of influence in creation of all modern nation-states, human rights, international law and maintenance of the core social contract in the modern society.

Similarly lawyers/bankers were the ones who built in trust in capital, contracts, businesses and protection of investor rights. Delaware c corp is not an outcome of bad guys.

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PaulHoule 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s a system though that seems to be at the breaking point.

	▲	plaidthunder 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. It might be a general property of all human organizational structures, to degrade over time in terms of intent drift and erosion of public goodwill. It offers some predictive power if so, like OBAFGKM + luminosity is enough to determine where a star is on its lifecycle. Maybe there's a similar domain that maps some human coordination structure onto a deterministic trajectory from birth to death. If that were the case, I wouldn't be surprised to see venture capital--as an organizing principle for the tech industry--reaching a later stage of life.

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chongli 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You don’t have to go back that far. Read To Kill a Mockingbird for an example of a really nice lawyer.

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ang_cire 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean, it is a work of fiction.

	▲	chongli an hour ago \| parent [-]
		A work of fiction which has been revealed to be semi-autobiographical.