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Someone hired to write rules they fully expect you to read and they won't
means A person who holds office with the power to write, propose, or vote laws into existence.
from A straightforward English compound — 'law' plus 'maker' — stitched together the way the language loves to do with job titles (shoemaker, bookmaker). It shows up in English by at least the 1500s, part of a wave of agent-noun compounds that just named the job by naming the thing made. No hidden myth here: the word is exactly as literal as it looks, which is almost funnier than if it weren't.
- actual job
- fundraising takes more hours than legislating
- average age
- older than most countries' median lifespan
- bill reading
- many vote without reading the text
- etymology
- literally just maker of laws, no spin