I'm generally of the opinion that honesty and mutual cooperation with people are the path to a better future for everyone, but it must be noted that for this purpose neither your boss nor your landlord counts as a person.
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You could say "everyone you have a relationship with that involves the transfer of money doesn't count as a person" and that'd be more consistent but that's not what I believe "Be soft on the person, hard on the problem" - Getting to Yes
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Okay fair. The less able you are to move flats or quit your job the more of a problem this is.
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Moving flats is always a non-trivial expense, even in terms of emotional costs. I guess this would be balanced: - without rent, the landlord's mortgage will fall through and they'll lose the flat - there's a significant risk they won't find another tenant - both sides know this
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This is one of the cases where my strategy is to maintain two separate internal agents: one pro-social optimist that genuinely cares, and one self-preserving pessimist that makes sure I don’t get screwed over. They’re both useful and it doesn’t matter too much which is “correct”
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Which one is primarily active at any moment depends on all sorts of contextual things. Somehow it does help me (I feel less conflicted) to not think of my boss as “kind of good, kind of bad” but just about myself as having two separate needs/drives
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