True, but that&#x27;s taking a very &quot;realpolitik&quot; attitude toward it.<p>What about the fact that breaking the law is (often) morally wrong in its own right? Even if you disagree with the law, I don&#x27;t want to live in a place where laws are toothless and optionally followed; the side effects of such lawlessness would be horrible, and huge.<p>This whole thing really got me thinking about how we in SV&#x2F;SF think about laws and their enforcement. It might sound a little mean, but I almost hope they make an example out of Parker Conrad and Zenefits to nudge the pendulum of VC-funded companies a bit back toward respect for laws and compliance, rather than this &quot;fuck it, they won&#x27;t enforce it and if they do, we&#x27;ll just have our well-connected VC partner make an off-record call to the governor&#x2F;senator&#x2F;regulator and magic it away&quot; that seems so common today. All in the name of GROWTH.