[–] 1 point 1 month ago

I mean... I've never even heard of legal systems that allow you to protect yourself without forking over a shitload of cash, and I've been fucked over by corporations in NZ, UK, GE and FR. Every time I tried to follow the free legal help I was met with "no-one is going to help you with this for free" or "it'd cost you 20k to pursue this and you'll only win 20k at most, so it's not worth pursuing" despite the law clearly being on my side.

Not saying there aren't things you CAN get help with in these countries, nor saying that other countries don't help poor people in this way. Just my experience.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    No, capital has the means to enact the legal system. If, for arguments sake, we had perfect legal systems where legal representation was free, everyone would be protected equally. To be clear, I'm not proposing any particular solution, just being nitpicky in that "that's how any legal system protects anything" isn't correct - there clearly are possible systems that aren't imbalanced.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    Laws have always been the way the upper class controls the lower classes. When we had more bargaining power they spent more effort to keep us happy, but as we gradually lose bargaining power we are seeing them take more and more.

    To elaborate: laws always existed to decide who wins and who doesn't. It just used to be more subtle mechanisms, like capital giving access to lawyers and skilled labor. Other times it was super obvious, such as with slavery.

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