tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post789390721482424570..comments2023-10-30T08:41:06.178-07:00Comments on Inside the Law School Scam: Super people and intergenerational justiceLawProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174586969709793419noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-90918221812048019082011-10-05T00:43:25.684-07:002011-10-05T00:43:25.684-07:00Being on the scene to watch the trend toward incre...Being on the scene to watch the trend toward increasing pointiness for years, I am struck how little these broadening experiences actually translate into a higher quality professional worker. We're actually going backwards because as students put time in to produce increasingly impressive resumes, they are not making gains in the areas of street smarts and common sense. They graduate no better equipped to tackle the challenges of the workplace than us dullards who drank beer and slept during our holiday breaks did 10-20 years ago. <br /><br /> It is time to put some controls on the activity arms race. There are only 168 hours in a week so anyone claiming more broadening than can be done in that time while still accommodating sleep and personal hygiene is OUT. Same for the weekend warriors who weave a bunch of superficial commitments into a tapestry that is a mere illusion of broadminded worldliness. Bonus points to those those who do things well and make a difference even if it means their laundry list of activities is shorter than others. Finally, put some focus back on academics. Candidates should have explain what did they do to academically stand out.Faculty Bulldognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-28843232061341171512011-10-04T23:06:06.305-07:002011-10-04T23:06:06.305-07:00@9.03 - The basic fact is that workers in Brazil o...@9.03 - The basic fact is that workers in Brazil or China are not, in the main, competing with American workers. Who do Chinese workers fear? They fear the Vietnamese, the Indonesians, the Indians - all of whom can potentially do the same labour-intensive export-oriented work that they do, the same kind of jobs that were leaving the US before the US even established diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China. <br /><br />American worker's biggest source of competition is from their fellow citizens of developed countries in East Asia, Australasia, and the EU. Why? Because workers in these countries provide the same kind of skills-and-technology intensive labour that they do.<br /><br />@Steroid Gut - So let me get this straight, your answer to joblessness is that every unemployed man should take his family into the woods and carry out a single-handed guerilla war against local authority?Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-55396345113490471172011-10-04T21:03:23.541-07:002011-10-04T21:03:23.541-07:008:34, not races per se, the residents of the under...8:34, not races per se, the residents of the underdeveloped world. Sometimes they're in China, sometimes they're in Poland, soon they'll be in Columbia, Panama, and South Korea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-22394310648521916322011-10-04T20:55:43.553-07:002011-10-04T20:55:43.553-07:00And yes it is me "Steroid Guy" who wrote...And yes it is me "Steroid Guy" who wrote the post above. Get a backbone people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-91986629888779282212011-10-04T20:51:58.704-07:002011-10-04T20:51:58.704-07:00You know, there was a time in this country where m...You know, there was a time in this country where men didn't need jobs. If they didn't get a job they would just go live in the wilderness and live off of the land. They viewed a job as oppression. See Rambo 1. <br /><br />What happened to so pussify our country?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-52663660159279407772011-10-04T20:34:12.548-07:002011-10-04T20:34:12.548-07:00I'd love to know what races fall into the cate...I'd love to know what races fall into the category of "etc." in 8:07.<br /><br />I appreciate the candid comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-62489951322718793792011-10-04T20:07:51.745-07:002011-10-04T20:07:51.745-07:006:41, to the extent that those Chinese & India...6:41, to the extent that those Chinese & Indians (etc.) have been turned into my economic competitors, fuck 'em. They're no different than somebody trying to steal my land or steal my oil; they're taking my livelihood away from me. If my kids and I could have a middle class existence financed on their starvation and misery, fine. Don't pretend they don't feel the same toward me. <br /><br />The leaders of those countries foolishly allowed overpopulated in their countries, then bailed themselves out by allowing multi national corporations to use their overpopulation as a weapon to crush and eviscerate the american middle class. They aren't the most culpable actors, but they're undercutters who have to know what they're doing is taking food out of other peoples' mouths.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-67198551600383237492011-10-04T20:00:15.388-07:002011-10-04T20:00:15.388-07:00Interesting post. Lots of really stupid commentary...Interesting post. Lots of really stupid commentary afterwards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-47754254096255219512011-10-04T19:57:29.909-07:002011-10-04T19:57:29.909-07:00"but what about the guy who had an A average ..."but what about the guy who had an A average at a good undergraduate school and a 167 on the LSAT, and finished in the top 20% of his class at George Washington, and can't get a job?... What did that guy do wrong again? Oh right he should have "worked harder" and spent a couple of more holidays in college working on Guatemalan farm cooperatives, and gotten into NYU Law... Because no matter what happens, the thing to remember is that if something goes wrong it's your fault, or possibly your parents,' but never ever the system's, which is fundamentally fair and just if always amenable to some marginal tweaking to make it even better."<br /><br />Um, he'd get into Michigan or Cornell and this hypo would never take place. But yes, if he did go to GW, he should have (a) worked harder on getting a decent LSAT score, or (b) not gone to GW. What's wrong with a law firm hiring system that's dubious of a school generally filled with mediocre talent? Or, what's unjust about a world in which there are more spots in law schools than open spots in big law firms?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-79211883655377480252011-10-04T19:03:19.019-07:002011-10-04T19:03:19.019-07:00Great post today, LP.Great post today, LP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-20518182257982311132011-10-04T18:41:11.423-07:002011-10-04T18:41:11.423-07:00Interesting. We've gotten into an argument ab...Interesting. We've gotten into an argument about free trade. It's not a bad conversation to have, but it will polarize even those who can agree law school is a scam for most would-be law students. I see a lot of short-sightedness and selfishness when Americans speak on this subject. What about a billion plus Chinese (to say nothing of India or other countries) lifted out of poverty and starvation--not worth 10s of millions of American blue collar jobs? Was the American economy really so great in the 70s when we didn't have global competition? History has had a lot of global hegemons. That status doesn't last indefinitely. There's no bringing back America's global dominance. We need to work with what we have. How do we move forward? Protectionism is something we tried in the Great Depression... without good results. More redistributive inheritance taxes might be a better fix for the growing wealth gap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-67467667109372762902011-10-04T16:16:23.502-07:002011-10-04T16:16:23.502-07:003:35. 'gung ho boy here' - Interesting tho...3:35. 'gung ho boy here' - Interesting thoughts; all of them. <br /> The essence I get from both my middle class friends and lower class students aspiring to entry level pink collar and odd-collar jobs - some of who have worked in bullet and envelope-making factories (god bless them), is that that life, the life of the "factory worker" is for the birds. The whole "you're lucky if you have a job" - no, some jobs decidedly suck - canard aside nobody wants to do that shit, not my felon, junkie, minority, female (90%)students - they aren't having any of that shit. (not hatin, I can relate) Yeah, a nice union Claycomo-Ford job is worth 28 or so an hour plus benny and pension...but that ain't what they're hiring at now...temp workers get like 16$. I'm an "exploited" adjunct and get 35 an hour to do fuck-all in air-co with genteel co-workers while the ware-housed unemployed (really, formerly employed adults) students rack up their loans sowing virtual fields on Farmville and paying a hefty stu-loan (which hypothetically we will bail out to the tune of 1 trillion). I make 28 fucking thousand dollars a year and FEEL GUILTY for the masterful con played on the rubes/students that I'm in on and since I get to live like a prince with clean finger nails, a cozy home, and fair to middling luxury. So, the douche law-prof who makes any living at all in this game and refusing to admit it's a crooked, crooked, sham - well... Dante and all that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-38211758417838097482011-10-04T16:10:08.484-07:002011-10-04T16:10:08.484-07:00"To the dismay of consumer groups and the dis..."To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government."<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/obama-debt-collectors-plan_n_993868.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-5912763686508532122011-10-04T15:35:53.161-07:002011-10-04T15:35:53.161-07:00*South Korea*South KoreaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-21551015003207032142011-10-04T15:35:22.789-07:002011-10-04T15:35:22.789-07:003:22, the problem with that theory is that in 1984...3:22, the problem with that theory is that in 1984, the US trade deficit with Japan was $46 billion. Now it's about $60 billion. Nothing has change vis a vis the US economic relationship with Japan over the past 25 years. All that happened is that China emulated Japan, as did North Korea and so what was a leaking out of jobs turned into a whooshing sucking out of jobs.<br /><br />Also, Japanese only superficially have a decadent culture. Even Japanese kids in punk getup and rainbow hair are very respectful and hard working. Americans have a decadent culture in reality even if they're clean cut and wearing suits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-74634987723566411842011-10-04T15:26:36.198-07:002011-10-04T15:26:36.198-07:00"I’m sick and tired of hearing things from up..."I’m sick and tired of hearing things from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics. <br />All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth." -John LennonLaw Office Computinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741029082116341276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-44269171412615284432011-10-04T15:22:52.560-07:002011-10-04T15:22:52.560-07:00But isn't what "Gung Ho" (1984, clos...But isn't what "Gung Ho" (1984, close to my birth) teaches us is these things are ongoing...the Japonese, efficient and collective/group oriented now have a decadent youth culture. All we have to do is give the Chinese youth a generation to become as decadent as we are and then it's back to a level playing field. In the meantime I'll just sell Chinese kids whatever they think is cool like the English language, Disney, Pabst blue ribbon, College and Law School courses (odd, http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/21/pabst-blue-ribbon-is-classy-and-expensive-in-china/)....oh wait, that is already what many of my indebted college grad friends are doing in Korea, China, etc etc. IMHO Micheal Keaton was good in that movie....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-14035265387923369362011-10-04T15:14:07.674-07:002011-10-04T15:14:07.674-07:00Thanks for that post TDennis. That was really help...Thanks for that post TDennis. That was really helpful. You entered a discussion for no other reason than to insult not one, but two people. You're a great person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-23010040804741903842011-10-04T15:11:29.889-07:002011-10-04T15:11:29.889-07:00To the anonomi (thank you Mr. Malloy, that was bri...To the anonomi (thank you Mr. Malloy, that was brilliant!): I think you're both whack jobs.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659995537790248686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-30765421194237932502011-10-04T14:59:21.219-07:002011-10-04T14:59:21.219-07:00The only wackjob here is you. You are an idiot, an...The only wackjob here is you. You are an idiot, and homicidal as well (see your comment @ 2:37). If I want help with unemployment I'll call you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-41209582974167944062011-10-04T14:57:23.356-07:002011-10-04T14:57:23.356-07:00Holy shit - I just spent hours arguing with a comp...Holy shit - I just spent hours arguing with a complete wackjob. I should have known - the combination of stating outright lies with fervent enthusiasm is usually a tell. I just thought you were seriously misinformed. <br /><br />Do yourself a favor and start filing your unemployment deferment now...you'll be very familiar with it once you graduate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-70675535159370134772011-10-04T14:50:14.082-07:002011-10-04T14:50:14.082-07:00Gung Ho, from the days when only one Asian country...Gung Ho, from the days when only one Asian country was economically dominating America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-61883392505600213492011-10-04T14:49:21.221-07:002011-10-04T14:49:21.221-07:00This is why I showed my class "Gung Ho" ...This is why I showed my class "Gung Ho" this quarter!!!! hahahahahahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-42222408908753619522011-10-04T14:47:20.933-07:002011-10-04T14:47:20.933-07:00*a buffoon rapidly searches wikipedia for the term...*a buffoon rapidly searches wikipedia for the terms "door man commerce clause," on his Chinese made computer*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-55917342007583514872011-10-04T14:40:57.589-07:002011-10-04T14:40:57.589-07:002:37, you don't know what the dormant commerce...2:37, you don't know what the dormant commerce clause is? You might want to look into it before you develop your position on free trade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com