On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:24:41 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
writes:
> >>From: John Mage <jmage at panix.com>
> >>
> >>Justin, speaking as a lawyer who has on several occasions
> practiced in
> >>bankruptcy court, advising folks to file for bankruptcy is NOT
> the
> >>unauthorized practice of law. It's what good friends do for each
> other.
> >
> >Yeah, really. Justin, you may have come to the field of law late,
> >but you've certainly wasted no time developing a lawyer's guild
> >mentality.
> >
> >Carl
>
> That's how any profession maintains its price of labor-power:
> gate-keeping. Doctors do it, professors do it, accountants do it.
> Professional gate-keeping is most often practiced through state
> licensing. In the case of university professors, gate-keeping is
> maintained by peer reviews & "apprenticeship." All cases call for
> advanced learning, access to which is narrowed by standardized exams
>
> & "weed-out courses."
>
> In return for publicly sanctioned monopolies, professionals are
> supposed to serve "clients," instead of gouging "customers" all they
>
> can -- sometimes charging standardized fees, instead of wildly
> fluctuating prices directly determined by supply & demand; to eschew
>
> advertising; to uphold high standards of ethics & competence; and so
>
> on. :-)
I prefer G.B. Shaw's characterization (in *The Doctor's Dilemma*) of professions as conspiracies against the public interest.
Jim F.
>
> Yoshie
>
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