Comment by JumpCrisscross
2 months ago
> a lot of liability law dates back to the railroad era. Another time that it took courts to rein in incredibly politically powerful companies deploying a new technology on a vast scale
Do you have a layman-accessible history of this? (Ideally an essay.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Standard_Oi...
This was a fascinating read. It’s been a few years since I finished but gives about the most thorough analysis you’ll find.
Not an essay but you can probably find an ai to summarize it for you.
There's the FELA
Idk about anything else
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