Justice Stevens reads the fine print
Someone needs to do something about the legal-industrial complex. It&#x27;s a complete fiction that normal people read pages and pages of contracts, EULAs, and that type of stuff. It&#x27;s basically impossible to read the docs for all the services you buy, and even if you did you wouldn&#x27;t know what it meant in terms of law.<p>Yet we have lawyers talking through the technical minutiae as if they are source code. There&#x27;s a huge disconnect between what people understand their rights and legal positions to be, and what the lawyers can turn it into.<p>There&#x27;s other problems as well. At least here in the UK, the court system does not have enough capacity. This leads to all sorts of problems with who gets justice.<p>Then there&#x27;s the money. If we&#x27;re all equal before the law, how can there be lawyers who cost thousands an hour? Either they&#x27;re more effective than other lawyers, in which case we&#x27;re not all equal under the law, or they&#x27;re just as good as any other lawyer, in which case they are just good marketers. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s a mix of both, but if we cared that everyone had equal access, why wouldn&#x27;t there simply be a big bench of lawyers from which you get assigned one? The legal system has somehow managed to both be a social good and a tremendous source of profit for its members. (Well, some of its members, they don&#x27;t all make piles of cash.)