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> For those who don't like it, that is fine. The ballot box is open as the prescribed means to effect a change.

Actually, it's not the only way to effect a change. You can also spend millions on lobbying, smarty lawyering, slow but methodical creeping attack on consumer rights to effect change. In the 1940s, when the law was passed, arbitration agreements were not nearly as persuasive as they are today.

The companies enforcing these arbitration agreements aren't playing by the same rules everyone else is, they are changing the rules to their will, and then funding politicians to prevent and reversal.