From time to time I bring up the commercial/guardian divide; I was thinking today of another way to express this
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So a king is obliged to provide for his people, and a people are obliged to defend their king--even if the situation becomes very difficult
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Transactional relationships, not loyalty relationships, are what make a society rich--but where loyalty relationships disappear entirely...
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...more and more people will find themselves "inconvenient" to others, and will be left to fall through the cracks of society.
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Where the transactional mindset prevails, and nobody owes anyone their loyalty, there nobody is owed protection either.
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Loyalty relationships are the foundation of society--transactional relationships are its facade
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Loyalty: "I've got your back" Transaction: "I've got what you want"
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In loyalty relationships there is generally a superior and inferior--transactional relationship are between equals
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There can be no facade without a foundation, but there's no point to a foundation without a facade
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Loyalty relationships exist so that transactional relationships are possible
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