— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleIn fact, just getting a live human being to look at each and every file for more than a few seconds, or to individually prepare the evidence for every lawsuit, would make the cost of litigation prohibitive for these massive companies. Therefore the only way to make this thing work to scale is to fully automate the litigation process. You must reduce the entire business to a series of dumb mechanical maneuvers that ruthlessly eliminate even the mere possibility of subjective judgment. And thatโs exactly how it is. The system is really a game of mathematical probabilities that the companies have built around the high likelihood of obtaining uncontested legal judgments.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 372)