Comment by jasonwatkinspdx

8 days ago

Surprisingly enough you doing what you want with your stuff in your own home is different from operating a business at scale, and we can make different laws for the different situations.

If I were these companies, I would just give them all in truckloads to the CEO's son, and have them dispose of it.

  • It might surprise some people that courts are wise to this sort of thing. Lawmakers generally empower them to ignore such legal fictions.

    • People on HN never been wise to any law. For some reason they think that law operates like a set of instructions that a CPU operates.