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I am sympathetic to people who didn’t see it coming; I am not sympathetic to people who saw Legal Armageddon (aka the massive layoffs of 2008) and still decided to start law school at a cost that is 50% higher than it was a mere few years prior.</p>
<p>What “inherent advantage”? What on earth is that all about? The only knowledge required was the capability of doing sixth-grade math. Anyone who can’t do even a rudimentary cost-benefit analysis and blithely believes that it will “all work out” - when a quarter-million dollars of unsecured debt is involved! - shouldn’t be a lawyer. </p>
<p>This reminds me of those people who bought half-million dollar houses on a $30k a year salary - except they were generally not very savvy people, and certainly weren’t trying to be attorneys.</p>