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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Apr 2018
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      "Politicians don't understand X." / "Regulators don't understand X." This is generally going to round to true for most interesting Xes. (Even the few regulators which spike very deep on domain expertise will by necessity not be at forefront of innovation in the field.)

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Apr 2018
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      People treat lobbying as a dirty word, but this is the real, genuine problem it solves: we've decided to make the same small set of people society's representatives on achieving values regarding pollution, labor protections, consumer credit, and heart transplants.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Apr 2018
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      Those folks are supported by relatively small staffs, made mostly of smart, ambitious generalists. Those smart, ambitious generalists are mostly in their twenties, and by construction are not heart surgeons themselves, but they have to write the laws that govern heart surgery.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Apr 2018
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      So what do you do? You hire people who speak the language of politics and speak the language of your domain, and you get them to educate the people who write the laws that the politicians vote on.

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        1. Soneca‏ @sousoneca 11 Apr 2018
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          But lobbyists are never domain experts. They are defending one part of society, in expense of others (win-win legislation needs no lobby), cherry-picking expert opinions and studies to make the decision go their way.

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        1. Christopher F. Nicholson‏ @chrisFnicholson 10 Apr 2018
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          Sure, but ideally they’d work *for* the members, not for the interest groups.

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          or maybe before they vote on things they should also educate themselves-- i know, i know, expecting leaders to learn things is CRAZY

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        1. Luke Stevens‏ @lukestevens 11 Apr 2018
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          In the context of US politics that is a *particularly* sanguine take :) Are you sure you’re not conflating industry lobbying with all lobbying? Many people lobby for common good; industry often for financial gain in spite of common good. Hence dirty word.

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          Also I’m pretty sure the many ex-politicians hired as lobbyists (i.e. the ‘revolving door’) aren’t hired because they just so happen to have an enduring and pure interest in both politics and your particular industry :)

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