It wasn't satire, but I enjoy that you thought it was :) I agree that society benefits when we have succinct, easily understandable laws for lay people. That

It wasn't satire, but I enjoy that you thought it was :) I agree that society benefits when we have succinct, easily understandable laws for lay people. That said we are currently moving father away from that target, rather than nearer. I would argue software is doing the opposite. It started extremely obscure and has slowly but surely moved in a direction where a majority of people can learn to understand it in months. Example, a 3 month "bootcamp" can now teach a lay person to write HTML, CSS and JavaScript and accurately predict the output of the interconnections of millions (billions?) of lines on code. You might argue the bootcampers don't truly understand what the kernel is doing. This is the point though, thanks to abstraction, they can grok it without needing to dive deep. I don't think there will ever exist a world where lay people will understand legalese. However, I do believe we can build a world where people can be trivially self taught and then grok new laws, and even write new laws of their own.