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1. dabinat · 1790566087 · focus · HN ↗

   My experience with lawyers is that if you need a legal document, they often have templates ready to go and will take 10 seconds to find & replace your company name into the document. I know this because they often don’t proofread it afterwards. They then charge you $1000 for that 10 seconds of work. Given that I have felt ripped off by many lawyers, I’m totally fine with that industry getting disrupted.

   1. hackyhacky · 1790567305 · focus · HN ↗

      > I’m totally fine with that industry getting disrupted.

      Because you'd rather pay your $1000 to OpenAI for 5 milliseconds of work, instead of to a human lawyer for 10 seconds of work?

      1. kshmir · 1790567632 · focus · HN ↗

         Except you probably pay cents in tokens for that, or included with your sub.

         1. hackyhacky · 1790568860 · focus · HN ↗

            The business plan of any "disruption" is to undercut the legacy competitors, drive them out of business, then jack up the prices. See also: Uber, streaming services.

            Enjoy your cheap lawyer tokens while you can.

            1. dudisubekti · 1790570187 · focus · HN ↗

               I mean that's just how life is? Exploit opportunities when they appear, find new ones when they run out.

               1. hackyhacky · 1790570622 · focus · HN ↗

                  In principle, that's fine, but "disruptive" businesses aren't building a positive long-term model. Rather, they are leveraging investors' money to recklessly demolish established systems and replace them with something worse.

                  1. dudisubekti · 1790578043 · focus · HN ↗

                     Im a bit Darwinistic on this, like if a system can be disrupted easily, it means there are existing weaknesses that need to be addressed (taxis vs Uber, hotels vs Airbnb).

                     If the established system can adapt to the disruption, then as consumers we have more choices.

                     If the established system dies and the disruptor replaced it (DVD rental vs Netflix), then the disruptor, despite their weaknesses, do answer the consumer needs better.

                     If both the established and disruptive system dies, then maybe they're not that important in the first place.

                     1. hackyhacky · 1790597464 · focus · HN ↗

                        Any system can be disrupted if you throw unlimited VC money at it.

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