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Breaking the law seems very much the modus operandi of Silicon Valley startups these days. Just look at AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Aereo, 23andMe et al.
by e15ctr0n 12y ago
Breaking the law seems very much the modus operandi of Silicon Valley startups these days. Just look at AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Aereo, 23andMe et al.
- ryanSrich 12y agoAnd rightfully so. Some laws exist to protect the consumer. Most laws exist to extort money and funnel it to a very specific group of people.
- Cookingboy 12y agoOh god the arrogance and naivety. Yes, all import tax laws exist with the sole reason of funneling money to specific group of evil people, this is absolutely true regardless of circumstance or the country or product category. Things like local market production and foreign trade balance and a gazillion other factors never play a role. /sarcasm. Even if the law is out of bad intention, the best way to get it changed is to break it right? Be..because JUSTICES TRIUMPHS ALL IN THE END RIGHT? /facepalm
- edgyswingset 12y agoCare to explain which of those "most laws" exist to extort money? It's common to hear this sentiment parroted around, but never does it come with anything backing it up. Until that point, people like me have to assume that sentiments such as that are purely self-serving.
- Cookingboy 12y agoIt absolutely is self serving.
- idlewords 12y agoWorse, this kind of sentiment is undemocratic. The sheeple pass the laws, and the few Nietzschean supermen with the guts (and money) to do it disregard them, to prove they're wrong.
- Cookingboy 12y agoNot sure if you are being sarcastic or not. I thought democracy == people rules, but it seems like you are suggesting we discard "sheeple"'s opinion and follow the lead of a few "supermen with guts and money". Not sure who's being undemocratic here. Also, whenever someone uses the word "sheeple" in their argument they lose all credibilities in my eyes.
- idlewords 12y agoThe second sentence is sarcasm.
- davemel37 12y agoI really hope you don't actually believe this is the case with most laws. Some laws need to catch up to the modern world, but thinking that they are all in place to enrich certain people is really far fetched. (I do think that all laws that were passed were voted in place by legislators who are self-serving...but that doesn't meant they dont have a good reason to exist.) Not to say there aren't incumbents who feel threatened by the new world and will latch onto archaic laws to protect their empires...any good idea will have this hurdle, but the laws themselves almost always do serve a function that is in society's best interest.