Everything is mathematics. Everything. Every bit of science is either a (possible renaming) of a mathematical concept, taxonomy or experimentation. All high-order thinking is mathematics at its core.
The idea that an untrained person can be a successful SCOTUS Justice, as some have argued on this thread, is proof of total ignorance of what lawyers and judges do.
Unless they program jury-vacs like on The Jetsons, it's pretty much talkin', readin' and writin'.
Nobody on this thread would bisit an amateur dentist of doctor or accountant.
All true. However, what great theory or idea of dentistry is beyond the reach of a well-educated person? If I can quote my dermatologist, "We don't know what causes that." Do you know what that refers to? Anything I ask him, actually. With respect to accountants, again it's arcane work but if you can find somebody who can't understand debits and credits, I would love to meet him. These professions involve some skill and expertise, but much more so than a judge.
Or are you saying we live in a oligarchy of the law profession where government is of the lawyers, by the lawyers and for the lawyers?
These professions are also only lucrative (with the exception of accountancy, they aren't particularly well-paid) because they are piece work. If the dentist wants his hygenist to do all the work, then he has to pay her out of his own earnings. But if he's willing to work, he can pay more hygenists and take more patients. Oh, there's another reason that the medical profession has been lucrative (it is less so now, particularly because of lawyers), and that is that medical schools have artificially restricted the supply of doctors.
Yet people think that the Law is so simple anyone can interpret it. Hilarious.
It had better be. We serfs are expected to follow it.
this isn't France.
BTW, France has no world-class university anymore. Just a useless bit of information.
For that matter, math teachers are harder to find because their subject has a higher market value in the private sector.
You would think so, but the union (a monopoly) ensures that there is not much difference in public education salaries and middle school math teachers are not required to have a math degree.
Law schools restrict the supply of lawyers just as medical schools do.