[gpm]

If we didn't already have mandatory jury duty, I don't think there's a hope in hell that you could get a bill passed requiring it today. If you did manage to get a bill passed, I think the courts would almost certainly strike it down.

We have become much less keen on requiring people to work against their will. Jury duty is grandfathered in, but new things of that kind wouldn't be lightly accepted.

[ryangittins]

This is true of a lot of things. Imagine if libraries didn't exist and someone got the bright idea for one today. It would never fly.

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In a world of open source and Wikipedia, that's a bold claim.

[ryangittins]

Those aren't funded by taxpayers like libraries are.