Cash in on corruption - become a lawyer

If you know any young Thais of university age who are looking for a career choice, tell ’em to become lawyers. There is and will be a never-ending need for lawyers here because the government fosters continual streams of corruption. Just the problems revolving around one man residing overseas probably employ thousands of
full-time lawyers and paper-pushers.
Government lawyers rarely get convictions, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is staying busy, so as to enable tens of thousands of law-related personnel to stay employed. Similar to stockbrokers and investment bankers, they don’t provide any product, but they make money while pretending they’re doing something useful.
Now, if we could get some incentives going – for alternative energy or environmental husbandry – that would be interesting. Yet such “pie in the sky” topics aren’t motivating enough for university students. Instead, many study business or law because those careers (though they don’t help disadvantaged people or heal the environment) will ensure employment in the never-ending, paper tiger, anti-corruption cases that proliferate within the halls of government.
Ken Albertsen
Chiang Rai