It's certainly easier with practice. It's easier for us. But we probably aren't average. But there's also the issue of volume. It isn't just a matter of language. We have laws passed with thousands of pages in them, some of which are totally unrelated to the original topic.

I don't buy that any average person can know all the laws and regulations they're subject to. Now I don't know necessarily that they should be able to (I'd have a very small government so they probably could), but something like the tax code seems designed to fuck people. And then you have things like Antitrust that's so vague it can be used to convict a business on either side of a case depending how you spin it.

At some point you have to ask whether *can* is equal to practical or feasible. If I have to hire a dude at hundreds of dollars per hour just to do basic life stuff without going to prison (work, use my property, start a business, write code, etc), I don't think such a system is just. And then the legal system probably has to become a tangled mess to manage it.

That's my retarded non-lawyer take anyway. That's how I feel as a citizen.