There is a reason why virtually 100% of Congress are lawyers. (Not sure where to look up the stats on that, though.)
Edit: I was wrong. It's "only" ~50% of Congress, assuming the numbers are roughly the same since 2016. source: https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/6/30/12068490/too-many-la... That's still a huge number, compared to the % of general population who are lawyers. In the US there are 1.4M lawyers; if the pop is 350M then they are 0.4% of the population - and a much smaller fraction of the adult working population (roughly .02%).
I was with you til the last sentence. The adult working population is about half of the total population, so approx 0.8% are lawyers, not 0.2%, and certainly not 0.02%.
Edit: I was wrong. It's "only" ~50% of Congress, assuming the numbers are roughly the same since 2016. source: https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/6/30/12068490/too-many-la... That's still a huge number, compared to the % of general population who are lawyers. In the US there are 1.4M lawyers; if the pop is 350M then they are 0.4% of the population - and a much smaller fraction of the adult working population (roughly .02%).