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"Fair" is always impossible, but the goal is "fairer", which really is possible if we accept that lawyers and big corps have to have it slightly worse so everyo

• vkou 3y ago
  Okay, I'll bite. You tell me how to fix it. And I'll tell you how a bad actor will abuse your fix.
  • mihaic 3y ago
    If a lawsuit is dismissed by a judge as frivolous, automatically put a minimum fee of a few good thousand dollars that the claimant now has to pay. Of course, it can be appealed, but the minimum fee on the same judgement just goes up. Of course there are tens of other small improvements that could bring improvements, starting from simplifications of the legal code to small claims courts that would be allowed to punish minor offenses by corporations that are repeated on a systemic scale. What are the abuses that you see, and most of all, do you think those abuses would be worse that the current abuses?
  • BrandoElFollito 3y ago
    Not OP but if the costs were a function of the wealth (highly nonlinear, such as exponential) then a large company would need to think twice before going to court. This also means that the smaller players wood get drained out if they try to abuse the system. Another thing is that the CEO wild be forced to attend, or have very high costs to not be there. This is too ensure that me, as an individual, have much more to loose personally (and can be exhausted) in front of a corporation who has leaders wise job is to be at the court. I did not put a lot of thoughts on the ideas, but the basic one is too make everyone suffer the same relatively. This is partly sourced from Finland roads, where you pay in function of your wealth when you cross the law