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Trying to operate an Uber/AirBnB style ignoring of regulations can work when you're dealing with hundreds of small time, underfunded municipal governments. But
by guelo 11y ago
Trying to operate an Uber/AirBnB style ignoring of regulations can work when you're dealing with hundreds of small time, underfunded municipal governments. But when your regulators are federal and state level you have to straighten the ship real quick if the eye of Sauron looks your way.
- eldavido 11y agoTrue, but that's taking a very "realpolitik" attitude toward it. What about the fact that breaking the law is (often) morally wrong in its own right? Even if you disagree with the law, I don't want to live in a place where laws are toothless and optionally followed; the side effects of such lawlessness would be horrible, and huge. This whole thing really got me thinking about how we in SV/SF think about laws and their enforcement. It might sound a little mean, but I almost hope they make an example out of Parker Conrad and Zenefits to nudge the pendulum of VC-funded companies a bit back toward respect for laws and compliance, rather than this "fuck it, they won't enforce it and if they do, we'll just have our well-connected VC partner make an off-record call to the governor/senator/regulator and magic it away" that seems so common today. All in the name of GROWTH.
- SeoxyS 11y agoLaws need to evolve with society. Often, that means that they are challenged due to a edge case in a changing society.