We knew this bubble couldn't sustain itself forever. Just from basic economics, we knew that the supply of lawyers ultimately had to be in step with their demand. And that could happen either by decreasing the number of lawyers, or God forbid, increasing the number of sick people. Would you believe that we chose to pursue the latter?

In ECON 101, you learn that everyone makes decisions that they believe will maximize their utility. Utility is sort of a vague measure of satisfaction, whatever that means to any given person. Money is the most obvious metric; most people make decisions that they believe will let them either make more money or spend less of it. Happiness is another important metric, though it's harder to quantify. But for politicians, the only relevant metric is votes: for a politician, the purpose of life is to get re-elected.

That being the case, politicians will do whatever they have to in order to win votes, even if that means compromising either their moral values or the promises they made to get elected in the first place. Remember, moral values and promises are not the lifeblood of a politician; votes are.

Now, thinking like a politician, if you wanted to get re-elected in a town full of mesothelioma lawyers, who would you base your campaign on? You're not going to win votes by pledging to fight the disease when you have so many voters who depend on it for their livelihood.

It only makes sense to side with the common man, who in this case happens to be a mesothelioma lawyer. There have been so many people playing the part of "Joe the mesothelioma lawyer" in political campaigns, that you might think it would be a complete joke by now. But no, if anything, each incarnation of Joe the mesothelioma lawyer seems more effective at gaining support than the last.

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