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Re:They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket–But... by trumpdong on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:14AM (#48643783)
This is not correct. It's a politician's job to make them selfrich by any means necessary. It's a lawyer's job to make you pay for as many hours as possible.
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Re:They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket–But... by RugnirViking on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:20AM (#48645387)
correct - "a" lawyer. a single lawyer is but a cog in the machine. Lawyers as a whole, as an institution, however are at least ostensibly supposed to exist for some benefit to society. They, like other institutions, must act to prevent principal agent problems. And like other institutions, they are failing dramatically
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