[exabrial]

"At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought."

I mean yes, the headline... Uber broke the Taxi Medallion law, and gets around hiring employees and other tax law for example. These are stupid regulations though and everyone knows it, so nobody cares.

[Terr_]

It could be clearer and shorter, but I don't think its Billy-Madison-quote-level bad. I read it as:

1. Tries a title where "the law" could refer to both legal-statue and also metaphysical limits. (But, disappointingly, does not really deliver on both.)

2. Assert that there's a lower-bound (a "law") on how much work can be removed from a product or process.

3. Observe that some major tech products do not eliminate work so much as move it and take advantage of efficiencies of scale.

4. Claim that some CEOs seem to think they can use "AI" to repeat the same overall process against their own companies in a vaguely recursive way.

5. Dismiss that as foolish because the work is going somewhere, even if it's just to the company selling the inference, and ultimately paying a different development-org.

[minraws]

When breaking the law is the norm, small or big seems to trivially get blurred, if you don't care when X law you didn't care about was being violated then why should the company think you will care if they broke Y law instead.

[thomasingalls]

Yeah, labor law is bad. You tell em

[whattheheckheck]

Who coined the term legal arbitrage?

[consumer451]

I believe it's called "regulatory arbitrage." This has to be my favorite SV euphemism.