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Liability is not sufficient when a sufficient power imbalance exists.
by michaelmrose 6y ago
Liability is not sufficient when a sufficient power imbalance exists.
- cft 6y agoSo the civil law system is not sufficient when the power balance exist? That's a Marxist argument. The results have been demonstrated.
- throwanem 6y agoYou're right, they have. Unfortunately, having failed to retain the lessons of the first Gilded Age, we're now well into a second, and closer to its inevitable failure and collapse than to its "morning in America" beginning. So it goes.
- cft 6y agoFirst Guilded Age is what made America wealthy. I would not call what we have now a Guilded Age- look at the debt. We have been squandering that first Guilded Age's wealth since 1933, but these things have a lot of inertia.
- throwanem 6y agoOnly on Hacker News.
- kyralis 6y agoPost-WW2, which had remarkably lower levels of inequality, is what made America wealthy. The first guilded age gave us the depression.
- unishark 6y ago> The first guilded age gave us the depression. This seems like a stretch. The great depression was more than a generation after the gilded age ended, and after a world war followed by an economic boom (roaring 20s). The US became a word power during the gilded age.
- michaelmrose 6y agoThe civil law system is expensive and takes years to work IF it works. Off the top of my head you can ask your congressman to make you immune from liability, force all your employees into binding arbitration with someone whose services YOU pay for and forbid group actions, work to appoint increasingly conservative judges who believe in fewer and fewer rights. Just ensuring that nobody without thousands to drop on the matter up front can probably get you out of a majority of jams.