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Seeing as there are more lawyers than ever with more influence in Washington than ever, do lawyers have any motivation to fix this system? It seems to me with t

Seeing as there are more lawyers than ever with more influence in Washington than ever, do lawyers have any motivation to fix this system? It seems to me with taxes, patents, immigration, regulation, healthcare and criminal justice the laws are purposefully hard to follow precisely because the lawyers who wrote them like it that way. Do you believe there are too many lawyers in this country (we have the highest per capita in the world by far http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most_lawyers_per_capita http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most... ) and if so what can we do as a tech community do to replace most of them with simple laws and web applications?

philiphodgen 13y ago
Laws are like sediment dropping to the bottom of the lake. Eventually there is no lake. I see no appetite for the wholesale dredging needed to fix the problem. To the contrary -- everyone is looking for government to help. See Tesla's experience in New Jersey yesterday, for instance. For what it is worth, what I see in the tech community (in only a few situations at the moment, admittedly) is people opting out by renouncing U.S. citizenship and establishing their companies in more amenable climates. This is one solution. The other solution is to not be part of the problem. Don't be one of those people who want Auntie Sam to help you win some sort of competitive advantage, and resist efforts by people (like the car dealers against Tesla) who attempt to screw things up. And if Gov. Christie attempts to run for President, remember Tesla. Vote well.