A LAW DEGREE MIGHT HINDER YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROPERTARIANISM by Daniel Roland

A LAW DEGREE MIGHT HINDER YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF PROPERTARIANISM

by Daniel Roland Anderson (law)

Depending on one’s academic and personal background, a law degree does significantly more harm than good when it comes to understanding Curt’s work. (Math, Engineering, and Philosophy majors can help. English Lit, Sociology, and Political Science will hinder.)

Mostly, a law degree hurts, because one learns to conflate legislation and regulation with actual law—which you won’t learn in law school at all.

And the version of Common Law schools teach (pilpul) will definitely do more harm than good because reciprocity has no role in the process, unless learning how to circumvent, distort, denigrate, and subvert reciprocity counts as a “role.”

Law schools excel at this.

Also, Dunning-Kruger will be an issue for most law school grads.

The situation is actually worse than I’m making out, but I’m spending some time with a friend who grew up working in the fields with me, so I’m in a good mood.

This kid just turned 32 and intuitively grasps the basics of Curt’s work very, very quickly.

He graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA, played a little college football and then never held an 8-5 job—opting instead for work where results determined income 100%. He’s trained people and started businesses and is raising a family.

He has a real law degree. 😉