My parents sent my brother through law school. He graduated. Now he's suing them for wasting seven years of his life.

The line is a sardonic jab at the mismatch between professional credentialing and personal fulfillment. By having the brother “sue” the parents who funded his legal education, the joke collapses cause and effect: law school produces a lawyer, and the lawyer’s first instinct is to litigate—even against benefactors. It also hints at a broader cultural anxiety about expensive, time-consuming education that may feel like a detour rather than a calling. The humor depends on exaggeration, but it points to real tensions: parental expectations, the sunk-cost feeling of years spent training, and the way legal thinking can turn life’s disappointments into claims and grievances.