True, 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 y

True, 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.