Yes, according to the Institute For Legal Reform of the US Chamber of Commerce dividing US legal billings by the number of US families equals $4,207. About $529 billion or 2.1% of GDP. Another component of GDP is the production of America's farms. The latest USDA figures show that this amounts to $223 billion or .08 percent of GDP, less than half of the expense of the national tort system.
Ergo the total sum of the agricultural production of the US, the corn, beets, soy beans, raspberries, milk, butter, pork, cabbage, beef, lettuce, mushrooms, chicken, water melons, barley and everything else that leaves the farm for further processing is much smaller than the industry that settles arguments between social adversaries or them and their government. The law business is more important than the food business.
According to the American Bar Association there are currently 1.3 million lawyers in the US. These are the secular Levites that make up the priesthood of the god Mammon. They draw up the laws and ordinances used to regulate society, fix the punishments for disobedience and administer the legislatures and court systems. The income of this priesthood is a tax on even the law-abiding population. Perhaps artificial intelligence can slow the growth of this industry.
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