The theory goes, so say any number of thought-pieces, that there are three kinds of business:
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Painkillers: Those who address acute immediate problems
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Vitamins: Those prevent future problems in the long term:
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Candy: Those that distract us from our daily existential horror of what the doctor is about to do to us.
This seems to us to miss some important categories of medicinal function. Such as curing problems, or taking steps to live our lives to avoid needing palliatives, quack fixes and misdirections in the first place.
Seeing legal service as something that either masks a deep-seated malaise without addressing it - a painkiller - or a quick, cheap and hard-to-prove-or-falsify substitute for the hard work of maintaining a healthy lifestyle — a vitamin — is the classic legal-tech take.
It is excellent advice in cynicism: the last thing you want to do is heal your client, much less give advice about a balanced diet, regular purposeful exercise and a healthy lifestyle, because by these you do yourself out of a regular stream of income. Sad face.