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When did you realize that all laws are made to benefit the rich and/or oppress the rest of us, and a politician's job is to write the laws and sell them to the voters? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 14 points 2 days ago

That has certainly been the case in some places, though by no means all of them. Enforcement is also a separate issue to the law itself.

But to provide some maybe better examples, do laws that enshrine workers' rights to form a union only serve to benefit the rich? Laws that limit donations to political parties? I really don't think you can make that argument for all laws.