The legal system is simply the rules of culture humans create that people must comply or else will be punished. Over time rules evolve, occasionally through logical foresight and legislation, and too often through violence.
It used to be the rule of law that women were the property of men and African Americans were the property of white people. We have long since moved past these rules, but it took violence to advance.
The issue with the traditional legal system is it uses precedent to make decisions. In other words, it is backward looking to determine compliance with the rules. This creates obstacles when society is trying to make systemic progress as we have seen with women and African Americans getting property rights.
Just like people don't look in the rearview mirror to drive forward, society should NOT look at past rules to create better laws about a technologically efficient, productive, and disruptive future.
Creative solutions are necessary for problems without precedent. Most lawyers are not very creative at dealing with novel issues because they were trained in law school to use historical precedents to solve legal issues. There are very few creative lawyers who practice in the current legal system as the current rules require backward looking logic and lawyers must play the traditional game to make money. Lawyers are trained, conditioned, and rewarded for looking backwards to solve problems.
Automation, digitization, and robotics are now transforming how we do everything in our culture. Unless we creatively look forward and implement better rules, we can expect lots of frustration and anger by those not being offered security, freedom and opportunity from the present rules as culture evolves.
Has anyone noticed how few politicians, lawyers, and judges (those creating, discussing, and overseeing the rules) are discussing automation and the societal implications in the current presidential and other political campaigns?
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