Implementing rules made by lawyers|engineers makes good environment for lawyers|engineers.
Deregulation implemented by lawyers|engineers makes good environment for lawyers|engineers.
Deregulation implemented by politicians or laypersons doesn't make good environment for engineers or lawyers. So yes, not all deregulation and not all regulation will be good for engineers.
Putting engineers in positions of power will mean that engineers will make and remove laws that are good for engineers. When engineers are happy with rules, they can FINALLY go do what they want which typically results in engineering products, which most people like after lawyers say things like "no, a steel sword is not a good educational toy for children". Reality is not simple.
I can’t really put my finger on it, but I think there’s a kind of sandbagging going on on vote-weighted social media sites, where folks in favor of the status quo make really incongruous or non sequitur statements as a kind of red herring bullet sponge for corrections, because they may suspect that the good corrections will get downranked by proxy when their own comment gets downvoted.
I see similar things in sports, where leading competitors intentionally lower their performance in qualifying rounds so that they get a better seed advantage and easier competition going forward in the bracket.
Have you seen this before on HN or online generally? I’m seeing it more online lately.
