What does society need?

[Clarino]

So, do we need truckers more than lawyers?

Sazari thinks lawyers are more essential to society, I disagree.

Let the people decide!

[The Comrade]

both serve a valuable service

[Clarino]

True, but nobody ever said "The first thing we do, let's kill all the truckers."

[Spider]

Without the truckers, society would grind to an immediate and devastating halt.

With the lawyers, we'd have to go back to settling our differences with duels. Which might be an improvement.

[Spider]

Giant conveyor belts powered by lawyers in giant hamster wheels.

[Showboat]

Truckers perform a valuable service to society whereas lawyers are parasites. Where's the option that society would be better off without them?

[Sazari]

Why have a poll? The market has spoken.

Lawyers - 2010 Median Pay $112,760 per year
Truck Driver - 2010 Median Pay $55,000 per year

But seriously, without truckers we would have to use more trains? God forbid we use a more efficient and less environmentally damaging form of transportation. And lets be honest, some google app will make your job 100% redundant in my lifetime.

Lawyers? You can't have a functioning society based on the rule of law without lawyers. Quite simply anything more than an extremely basic and feeble state requires a professional class to understand, interpret, and uphold the law as it is. Without lawyers any tyrant could abuse their power and the people would have little recourse in terms of the law. There is a reason lawyers are at the for front of almost every serious political movement in developed societies.

That of course, is why society pays lawyers twice as much. Because as important as trucking is (its not like most people can drive or anything), lawyers provide a valuable and difficult service that ensures the rule of law and justice for the citizens.

[Dylan]

[PoS]

The only way you can lessen the influence of lawyers is to make less laws.

[Dylan]

Removing some laws would give lawyers less work, removing others would give lawyers way more work.

Most people think of courtrooms and litigaiton when they think of lawyers, but corporate attorneys are an intricate part of the modern commercial world. Without them much of business would grind to a halt. Same for truckers.