I suspect the point is that if the only group which is in any way meaningfully enriched are the lawyers, there is a problem we should be examining in the underlying system.
...A system lobbied for, and legislated by said lawyers.
...A system lobbied for, and legislated by said lawyers.
Yes, and probably stop enriching anyone.
But again, i could argue literally the same thing about startups or anything else HN cares about, and it makes about as much sense (since you haven't said "why" this makes sense)
IE i could say: "if the only group of people meaningfully enriched are early startup employees, there is a problem we should be examining in the underlying system".
You act as if the problem is the lawyers here. Much like crappy startups, the lawyers are just doing what clients are quite literally paying them to do. The underlying problem is the people who think this is their ticket to money. Until you solve that cultural problem, you won't get anywhere. Without people trying to sue over everything and believing they are entitled to mondo bucks because their coffee maker failed one morning or whatever, you would have no problem whatsoever.
But right now we've built a system of private enforcement. That's ... what the lawyers do. and they take the cases likely to actually be good for business. If you want a different system, you'd also have to change the enforcement mechanism.
"...A system lobbied for, and legislated by said lawyers."
What? You realize there are lawyers lobbying on both sides of this, right?
They both spend and lobby about equal amounts, too. You see the same thing in criminal law as well.
What, you mean we might live without internet connectivity in my toaster, or the ability for a distant CEO to brick my garage door opener?!
As for lobbying, you're going to have to point me to the lawyers lobbying against trial law on an equal footing with the trial lawyers lobby; I wasn't aware that AAJ had any serious competition anymore than the NRA did.
For starters, the association of corporate counsel, the institute for legal reform (which is the US chamber of commerce's legal lobby arm), and the US chamber of commerce.
The ACC has 34k+ members, which is about as many as, for example, the national association of criminal defense attorneys.;
We've privatized law enforcement. Your complaint is said private law enforcement needs to be paid, not just for the work she did on spec here, but also for the work that doesn't succeed or result in a payout.
The alternative to not paying private law enforcement is we get basically no law enforcement around labor codes if you make it not financially feasible for lawyers to take these cases.