I think everyone is agreement on that point, and you’re correct in noting that students who feel betrayed by their law schools are barking up the wrong tree.

However, the real problem isn’t that students can’t “make a fortune,” it’s that they can’t make a salary that can pay back their loans. I submit that a huge percentage of law students aren’t interested in becoming rich. Is a profession that eats its young really in good health?

You also write: “If you can’t assess and accept the risks of spending three years and $150,000 to earn a law degree there is a simple and cheap two-word solution: Don’t Go.”

I respectfully submit that such a statement may be easier to make in retrospect than prospectively. According to your bio, you graduated in 1981.

N. William Hines notes in his article: Ten Major Changes in Legal Education Over the Past 25 Years:

“In 1980 obtaining a legal education was not particularly expensive compared to other types of graduate-level training, and law tuitions were not appreciably higher than tuitions charged undergraduates or candidates for masters degrees. As a result, most law students graduated from law school with little or no debt. Over the past 25 years the costs of providing a quality legal education have escalated much more rapidly than average wages and general inflation, and law tuitions have climbed even faster.”

In the current job market, where a bachelor’s degree doesn’t mean what it used to, the pressure to obtain an advanced degree is stronger than ever. The fact that law school has become such a risky proposition says as much about the legal profession as it does about law students.