I give advice to people that produce things so they can produce more things. So my work does directly result in the increased production of things.
I’m glad you’ve got that all worked out in your mind. Your concept of “directly” seems a bit sloppy to me, but if that makes you happy, go with it.
God, you are just full of :rolleyes: today. Don’t flatter yourself by thinking you’ve gotten to me. I was just pointing out that your continuance of this offshoot of the “myth of the noble poor” (i.e., that people who work hard have bad home lives) is idiotic. And the way you twist what Iakve posted to attempt to support your shitty argument is really sad.
To reiterate, that’s fine if you’ve chosen to make less money than you could because you think that’s the best course of action for you, but it doesn’t mean I’m a slave to my job or ignore my family or just make money to support wasteful spending, etc.
Let me see what I can dig up and I’ll get back to you. I’m still interested in the bet.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Ayn would be so disappointed in you. 
Really? So how many of the steel workers in the plant across town are you advising? The average person can’t afford a tax attorney. In fact, unless you’re working for H&R Block, I’d bet your average client is the type of person/company they’re talking about here.
I wonder if all the tax attorneys involved there are telling themselves they give advice “to people that produce things.” Oh wait:
Since many of the people who work in those areas mentioned are either unemployed now or most definitely “on the government teat,” may we assume your broad contempt for the less fortunate includes some of your own clients?
:rolleyes: at the substance of this post and your motivation for pisting it.
So, you’re saying the milkman was her father?
Yeah, I appreciate the fact that the janitors clean up my cans of Diet Coke so I don’t have to. That leaves me more time to … you know … actually create things. Thanks, dude!
Must be your attantion of details that makes you worth the big bucks:
And lighten up a bit. One day mommy and daddy will see you as a success, or at least less of a failure.
I must admit, I get serious giggles when I think about the concept of a Rand-style Libertarian tax lawyer.
What really makes it over the top is that Rand Rover doesn’t seem to understand why it’s so funny.
I suspect his typing is so bad because he’s breastfeeding while driving and using his new Blackberry.
Well, my motivation is purely to mock you for your profound misunderstanding of either Rand or exactly what it is you claim to do for a living. Ya know, for funsies. What do you have against fun?
Hey, waitaminute…
Rand Rover: “…I’m a badass”
Herbert Kornfeld: “I Am a Bad Ass” (Non-Onion link, since they don’t have this one online anymore [booooo!]. Link goes to a shoddy mirror site, but it’ll have to do).
Hmmmm…
I’m beginning to wonder if I went to law school with young Mr. Rover. We had a transfer student, who would do incredibly irritating things like take a social security law class, and spend the whole first lecture complaining to the professor that social security was unconstitutional, and should be abolished. All well and good, a legitimate (though somewhat crazy) viewpoint. But do it on your own freaking time, not when people are taking a class to learn social security law…
Anyway, I digress. Said student would also entire into a tizzy any time federal authority was mentioned, treating us to a diatribe on states’ rights. Which don’t exist, as he was repeatedly shown.
The parallels are pretty clear between the two of them. But this person wasn’t either on law review or a member of the Order of the Coif, so assuming Mr. Rover is not telling fibs, they can’t be the same person.
Dude - find a different hobby. I, too, work in a job where people are second-guessing my analysis and recommendations, and yeah, I come to the SDMB to chill during the day - but you know what I do? I revel in the joy of geeky conversation with folks who either sharing my passions and know the geeky jargon, or at the very least appreciate the joy of geekiness. I mean, life is interesting! I enjoy coming here and getting reminded of that while I have my head down.
And yeah, good for you for picking a career that, given our current capitalistic leanings is likely to be necessary forever. In a near term “I must provide for my family” sort of way, you have a form of steady job - in Asia, it is often referred to as a “iron rice bowl” - you have one; yay you. But, I must say, my job is to do the deals that involve deal lawyers - I hire folks like you. While you all bring necessary expertise and project management skills, you don’t sit at the grownups’ table when it comes to decision-making; you must know this, right?
Thanks for contributing to the constructive portion of this thread. Like you, I also enjoy other aspects of the SDMB besides the pit, so maybe I will try to concentrate on those. Maybe the new pit rules will be good for me (but so far it’s just prompted me to think of more creative insults).
I very much know I don’t make business decisions, and I have no interest in doing so. I make money whether the deal is ultimately successful or not. Sure I make less than the bankers, fund people, etc when the economy’s rolling, but many of them are in the shitter now while I’m still working.
You may be the first man ever to lie upon his deathbed wishing he had spent more time at the office.
I wonder who Rover is billing for all of the time that he’s posting today…
When I grow up I want to be a Badass Tax Lawyer. I’ll wear a +2 Bowtie of Itemizing and weild a Briefcase of Roving Doom.