Lawyer jokes are on point and on brand for a reason.

They grift about as hard as tech workers did pre-2022. Relying on the fact that no one can easily audit their work to justify their one hour of actually work despite making easily 300K+ a year.

Please kill their golden goose. Most lawyers are actively harmful to society.

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hermannj314 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I see no evidence that in our nation's 250 year history or the broader practice of law (specifically adversarial law), that lawyers are working to make their job more efficient, legal outcomes more reliable, or legal tools more accessible.

Burn their entire industry to the ground. I welcome making the practice of law an AI-only field and ban humans from working in it to remove prejudice, misconduct, expense. As a former foster parent, I've seen children being delayed justice for weeks because two lawyers couldn't find time for a 15 minute conversation in front a judge. I've hated all lawyers ever since. Gatekeeping priesthood of the 21st century.

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georgeburdell 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the other hand, I'm horrified at the thought of zero marginal cost legal work given the strain of the current workload on courts.

	▲	hibikir 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The law works because most people won't break it, most disputes don't even end up in anyone getting sued, and most lawsuits end up in settlements before too much court time was spent. Break any of those things, and systems crack. Break multiple, and it all collapses. If the cost of what a lawyer does today drops to pennies, the system probably needs robo-judges, and/or massive penalties for taking something in front of a human judge when the facts sufficiently completely one sided, as making them pay the winning party's legal fees will become insufficient deterrence.
	▲	Razengan 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> strain of the current workload on courts Maybe courts could be replaced by AI too once it's good enough? With the right to escalate to human judges of course.
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lurk2 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> They grift about as hard as tech workers did pre-2022. Relying on the fact that no one can easily audit their work to justify their one hour of actually work despite making easily 300K+ a year.

This isn’t true at all.