Right now we’re bearing witness to the West’s most serious design failure.
It’s The Law Itself.
It’s a bookshelf full of legacy cruft. Worst yet: it’s not refactorable.
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It’s The Law Itself.
It’s a bookshelf full of legacy cruft. Worst yet: it’s not refactorable.
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In times of stability this might not matter, but something big just happened. The US economy has taken a giant negative pulse that has shut down about one tenth of the workforce in a month. There is danger of starvation ahead.
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The response of the Congress has been pitiful. And we can expect things to get worse. But we can’t blame the Congress people alone; their working material is a mess.
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I didn’t realize I was probing that situation with this thread, which was a proposal for a small refactor. It went to my followers plus my three Congress representatives.
In two weeks I’ve received not one inquiry.
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In two weeks I’ve received not one inquiry.
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If you think of law as a design for the application of the powers of Government to the problems of Society, we had better start thinking about legislation as a design problem.
Today in particular we need agility, but we’re stuck with an inflexible legacy mess.
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Today in particular we need agility, but we’re stuck with an inflexible legacy mess.
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Who in Congress is even qualified to think about this?
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