5 Jobs That Only Exist Because People Are Dicks

By: Laura Meyers

People suck sometimes. And sometimes people suck so much that we have to create jobs to prevent their suckiness from affecting other people’s non-suckiness. Does that make them suck less since they employ people as a byproduct of their suckiness?

I don’t know, but, nonetheless… they still suck.

1. Lawyers

Lawyers exist because people are jerks. If you need a lawyer, and you’re not the perp, someone or something (an entity or business, like the government, for example) has committed a crime against you, and so, the market created a job for lawyers… because of jerks.