Comment by e15ctr0n
11 years ago
Breaking the law seems very much the modus operandi of Silicon Valley startups these days. Just look at AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Aereo, 23andMe et al.
11 years ago
Breaking the law seems very much the modus operandi of Silicon Valley startups these days. Just look at AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Aereo, 23andMe et al.
And rightfully so. Some laws exist to protect the consumer. Most laws exist to extort money and funnel it to a very specific group of people.
I really hope you don't actually believe this is the case with most laws.
Some laws need to catch up to the modern world, but thinking that they are all in place to enrich certain people is really far fetched. (I do think that all laws that were passed were voted in place by legislators who are self-serving...but that doesn't meant they dont have a good reason to exist.)
Not to say there aren't incumbents who feel threatened by the new world and will latch onto archaic laws to protect their empires...any good idea will have this hurdle, but the laws themselves almost always do serve a function that is in society's best interest.
Care to explain which of those "most laws" exist to extort money? It's common to hear this sentiment parroted around, but never does it come with anything backing it up. Until that point, people like me have to assume that sentiments such as that are purely self-serving.
Worse, this kind of sentiment is undemocratic. The sheeple pass the laws, and the few Nietzschean supermen with the guts (and money) to do it disregard them, to prove they're wrong.
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It absolutely is self serving.
Oh god the arrogance and naivety.
Yes, all import tax laws exist with the sole reason of funneling money to specific group of evil people, this is absolutely true regardless of circumstance or the country or product category. Things like local market production and foreign trade balance and a gazillion other factors never play a role.
/sarcasm.
Even if the law is out of bad intention, the best way to get it changed is to break it right? Be..because JUSTICES TRIUMPHS ALL IN THE END RIGHT?
/facepalm