As the ancients used to say, 'those that the gods want to destroy, they first make mad'. Accordingly, I see a lot of things going down the pan in an ever accelerating spiral.
There are too many unscrupulous, unethical people about, out to make lots of money for zero real creativity, value, and effort. They are forever inventing new artifices towards this end, be it indulgences (sin forgiveness chits), fractional banking (credit out of thin air), software patents, CO2 indulgences, etc. and then getting fat on trading them.
We are so far gone that many people can no longer even discriminate between real value and these things; sinking as we all are in this sea of BS.
There's also a glut of lawyers in the US, enabled by cheap student loans, law schools' statistics inflation, etc., all scrambling to put food on the table. It's not surprising that some new legal strategies and domains that arise from this demographic trend may be good for lawyers in the short term, but not for the country in the long term.
There are too many unscrupulous, unethical people about, out to make lots of money for zero real creativity, value, and effort. They are forever inventing new artifices towards this end, be it indulgences (sin forgiveness chits), fractional banking (credit out of thin air), software patents, CO2 indulgences, etc. and then getting fat on trading them.
We are so far gone that many people can no longer even discriminate between real value and these things; sinking as we all are in this sea of BS.