Lawyers should engineer a fair society and here's why. See: www.legalcomplex.com/blog

1. The Evolution of Law

2. How will Law evolve?
A Case Study of The Netherlands

3. Ecology
Economy
Engineering
..its about understanding the
of legislation..

4. ..The Ecology of Law..

5. How many Laws does it take?
..to manage a society of 17 million people and generate €850 billion in Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Wikipedia

6. 15,390
Total # of Laws & Treaties
Wetten.nl

7. How many rules do you need?

8. 217,539
Total # of Articles
..In 2008, reportedly it was just 140,000

9. What is the largest piece of legislation?
and what does it regulate..

10. Money
The Corporate Finance Law has
1231 articles
It’s one of 270 financial laws, total 4,177 articles

11. What if there is no money to regulate?

12. ..Enter Bitcoin

13. What if every company or contractor used cryptocurrency?
to exchange goods & services

14. Not a single rule in the Corporate Finance Law would apply
..according to the Minister of Finance

15. And no taxes are due
..if they did not convert it back to a normal currency

16. Because Bitcoin Is Not Money
..as well in Florida, USA

17. 62.5
Billion
in projected loss based on independent contractors
(aka ZZP-ers) alone
ZZPBarometer

18. ..So Government wants in

19. ..The Economy of Law..

20. What is the biggest area of regulation?

21. 998
Total # of Vehicle & Traffic Laws
Wetten.nl

22. 16,134
# of Articles in Vehicle & Traffic Laws

23. ..And it only takes a single article to monetize them all
like artikel 2 lid 3 WahV - Law of Mulder..

24. Generating ± 9 million speeding tickets every year and..
0
3,250,000
6,500,000
9,750,000
13,000,000
1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013

25. 1
Billion
in annual revenue on traffic violations
z24.nl

26. What if there are no more traffic violations?
or accidents

27. ..Enter Driverless Cars & Autopilot

28. Tesla’s Autopilot logged 47 Million miles in 6 months
..and Google Self Driving cars did 1.5 million in 6 years

29. Do we really need 16,134 rules to control our movements?

30. When a single mobile app would suffice..

31. ..Enter Ride-hailing apps

32. 1.1
Million
# of independent contractors active on Uber
HBR.org

33. 1
Billion
Rides
Uber.com

34. 14
Million
# of independent contractors on Didi Chuxing
Bloomberg.com

35. 4.15
Billion
projected rides yearly

36. ..And Apple wants in

37. But what if..

38. All independent contractors were hired?

39. Or fired?

40. What do Bitcoin, Uber, Autopilot all have in common?

41. Automated
Adaptable
Algorithms
They are digital platforms made up of
to influence human behaviors or replace them..

42. ..Operating mostly unregulated

43. Which they may prefer..
nrc.nl

44. ..The Engineering of Law..

45. How will Laws need to evolve?
to manage 3.35 billion independent contractors..

46. Automated
Adaptable
Algorithms
Laws need to become..
to influence human behaviors..

47. Laws need to be engineered

48. Laws can be engineered..

49. and Lawmakers are engineering law..

50. ..to create a Fair Society
Not just a marketplace of 3.35 billion AI driven humans

51. www.Legalcomplex.com/blog
raymond@legalcomplex.com