Had the privilege of being deposed once.Mangus MacLeod wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 1:47 pmAttorneys are some of the biggest consumptive parasites in existence. On the whole, what do they produce? The single thing that the legal profession is most effective at is separating people from their money. Legalized theft? Is that productive?Sarah wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 11:44 amSo the men in your area are labeled producers because they are involved in food and animal production. Does that mean when you were practicing law that you were not producing, but only staying busy?Mangus MacLeod wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 9:04 amInteresting.Sarah wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 8:17 am
Your ancestor led an amazing life. She has homestead skills but she also went to school and worked professionally. I know lots of women with this same kind of grit, determination, and ambition, they just might focus their energy on different things. Lots of moms for example focus on giving their kids as many opportunities as possible. We can judge and say, sports or drama, or music aren't important, but that's the culture we live in. Maybe it's the neighborhood you live in, but my neighborhood and ward are full of women who don't rest, who are working part-time to make ends meet or who are volunteering dozens of hours at school or with church callings, or neighborhood events. We are caring for the widows in our ward who can't do much on their own, and it can be exhausting. We are cooking and cleaning and doing laundry and taking care of home repairs. The list could go on and on. Yes, we are not farming or producing much, but the men aren't either. They get paid to sit at a desk all day and don't "produce" anything but a service. That's exactly what wives do as well. We are providing a service and it comes in many shapes and forms.
I now live in a very large rural ward, where one of the defining characteristics of the men is their production-orientation, and one of the most defining characteristics of the women is their consumption-orientation. This is in stark contrast to Anabaptists, where both men and women share a fundamental production-orientation, and very little consumption orientation.
I have lived in urban and suburban areas, and I have never noticed that this issue is any better there. Maybe some people simply don’t understand the fundamental difference between production and consumption.
No legitimate productive assumptions can be derived from simply staying busy.
My employer provided Attorney and everyone else casually discussed their mutual acquaintances.
And their respective Bat and Bar Mitzvahs.
She told me if I talked too much she would kick me under the table.
I believed her.
Now I know what the lamb felt like discussing what's for dinner with the wolves.
Twelve against one.
I figured out my attorney was on somebodies side.
But certainly not mine.
After a while, I figured out the game.
The idea is to talk a lot without saying anything.
So that's what I did.
Just a loose lipped nobody with nothing to say.
Shucks, golly, gee.
I never got kicked.
They never got the money they wanted.
I never got eaten.
Lots of disappointment all around.
Only three hours.
My upper level manager got two days.
Hope to never do it again.
Sir H