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This is about as likely to happen as a law that comes right out and invalidates software patents. Or ends women's suffrage. Or requires everyone to wear blue pants on Thursdays, under penalty of death.

It's an interesting thought experiment, but treating it as more than that is a mistake.




Bad law can change if strongly opposed. It just seems impossible. To pick an extreme example, slavery was as old as humanity, and backed by very powerful, rich, and organized special interests, until it was strongly opposed, consistently, for decades.


It could be argued that the Industrial Revolution was making the system of mass human labor obsolete. One moneyed elite against another does not a popular struggle make.

A better example, one that was purely social, was when Prohibition was enacted in the United States (alcohol being about as old as humanity). Preachers were calling for prisons to be torn down as they would no longer be necessary with the passing of the Demon Rum.

Then again, perhaps that's not the best example either. How about we just settle on someone noncontroversial like Gandhi?


What about the surgery example he provided?


It's a lot easier to get public sentiment behind a law that benefits these altruistic people who save lives for a living, and shouldn't have to deal with such crass commercialism (I know, I know. Run with it though.)

It's tougher to make the same sale when you're talking about a bunch of computer programmers and startup founders.


if public sentiments is all that's needed for laws like this to pass, it would be much easier.

It seems to me that blockers for such laws are more likely to be lobbyists.




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