Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I assume an old guy who has enough cash to afford a G5 can probably afford to keep it flying without continuing to work, or could downsize a bit and enjoy life in a perhaps smaller private jet.

Settling a shit claim actually felt pretty bad. I dinged a medical professional on an absolutely bullshit case and I'm pretty sure if there was such thing as karma, I'd suffer some really awfully malady for what I did. Our client was a fool, the injury claimed was not the professional's fault, a mediator told us so, but following the Nuremberg Defense, I did as I was told and we extracted a nice check based on threat of trial. That kind of thing is a bit easier when you're doing it to a large corporation. But I harmed an individual. That I had to do it because I was just an employee has never made the feeling that our system is seriously fucked up, and what I did was cosmically wrong yet totally ethical within that fucked up system, go away.

I have many of the same views of plea bargains. There's a deep inconsistency, a massive contradiction, in having a system ostensibly built to determine truth rely almost entirely on deals, acting, gamesmanship, and negotiating skill.

And yet I still happily refer cases and love to get those "money for nothing" referral fee checks in the mail.

I really don’t know how to be any clearer. I. Make. Money. For. My. Boss’s. G5. NOT. MINE. I FLY ECONOMY.