"Oliver Keating" wrote in
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The richest people in this country are Estate agents and Lawyers, and
they get rich by screwing other people.

That's complete tosh -- just how many of the richest 500 people in the
country are estate agents or lawyers? I suspect not one of the top 500 is
an estate agent, and any lawyers in that group probably got that rich in
some other occupation.

And by what definition do either of these professions get rich by "screwing
other people" -- they provide a service that those people are apparently
prepared to pay for in a free market, which is more than is true of the
average denizen of a university (including Imperial College).

And before you start a socialist rant against me, I am not an estate agent
or lawyer, have done very little to enrich either profession, don't have a
second home and do have a master's degree from IC.