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BigLaw is a socialist entity, at least at the associate level.  Though we don't usually use that term to label it, the fact is the law firms that we all know (and either love or hate), bastions of our capitalist, if litigious, economy, often do not mirror the market-based society that allows them to operate so profitably over time. 

The United States has long held itself up as a proponent of progress, indeed, as the leader of the free world.  In the face of a climate crisis and turbulent oil prices, several of the nation's prominent figures have called for the United States to take the lead in the effort to lower carbon footprints and find renewable sources of energy.

Spending beyond their means, promising people things that can't be delivered, ideas that sound too good to be true, loans that are going to cost a lot more down the road, greed by powerful people.  One might think this is a list of factors that lead to the current economic crisis (and it may well be), but this could also be