‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game
He lost because of a forced arbitration clause. This massive privatization of justice where any boilerplate service or product now comes with forced arbitration is making my blood boil.<p>The justice system should always be an option when arbitration fails, and arbitration should take no more than a reasonable time to fail (say, two weeks for this $5000 amount). The whole point of a small claims court is to handle such cases, not offload them to a dodgy corporate lawyer masquerading as a judge.<p>If the public service of justice is slow and expensive, we need to fix the public service, not replace it with a free market simulacrum. That&#x27;s always the case with non marketable but essential public goods.