look at France for example. civil law system; civil procedure is statutory. hasn't made the code du travail any better.
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Our current system certainly doesn't reduce uncertainty. Far from it
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If you haven't read Moldbug on formalism, I highly recommend it
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so what does he do? write it down? who collects these precedents? who ensures businesses are aware of them? lawyers emerge
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Hang on, we agree that the time spent on complete meaninglessness is a big problem. You say that the way to reduce that is clearer laws.
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I say the way to reduce that is clearer authority, less divided power. I'm not seeing how clearer laws would help time spent on meaningless
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aspects since all of the arguing over meaningless stuff comes directly from the law, which tends to be rather clear about the necessity of
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arguing about the meaningless stuff.
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divided power sucks, but isnt relevant here. if your authority decides cases inconsistently, economic activity will be discouraged.
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I can also tell you that from what I've seen, cases aren't dragged into millions of dollars of legal fees due to statutory uncertainty.
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This is actually totally contrary to my observations. The statutes are too certain about too many things, if anything.
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