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Ok, but there’s a set of laws called the federal arbitration act and everyone agreed to it. There isn’t a federal guy-breaking-your-legs act because that would
by singleshot_ 4y ago
Ok, but there’s a set of laws called the federal arbitration act and everyone agreed to it. There isn’t a federal guy-breaking-your-legs act because that would not be a good idea.
- emodendroket 4y agoThe situations in which employers, credit card issuers, and more entities you are more or less obliged to deal with can impose mandatory arbitration on you have been dramatically expanded by the Supreme Court in recent years in ways I don’t think we “all agreed to.”
- singleshot_ 4y agoSurely you agreed to it more than you agreed to getting your legs broken, right? I mean you still live here, and you voluntarily enter into contracts with arbitration agreements. I guess I can avoid the shorthand and say we all agreed except for monastic hermits and people who fled the country in search of the land of milk, honey, and unlimited jury trials.
- emodendroket 4y agoI don't consider myself to have agreed to a bunch of unpopular decisions shoved down our collective throats by unelected bureaucrats for life just because I didn't flee the country, but if you do then I guess there's not much to talk about.