4/ 15 months later she shut down the firm. I asked for (insisted on) my 45%. She exploded. I mean, exploded with name-calling, trash talking, etc. Destroyed a 20 yr friendship over it. Point: just because people understand contracts...doesn't mean they understand contracts.
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5/ This ties into something I've been thinking about a lot re (a) Moldbuggian formalism (b) http://reddit.com/r/legaladvice (c) town zoning board which I'm sueing for not following their own written rules
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6/ written laws and written contracts are really not at all normal for human beings. Analytical / sperg / nerd types love them. Define your terms! Assign values to variables! Document edge cases! but the other 95% of people want everything to be up for negotiation >>>
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7/ The MANNER in which people attack the written laws is always always always the same * talking about loyalty, friendship, past good deeds (claims to social status) * talking about needs, weaknesses ("I've got anxiety disorder! I need this money for a vacation!") * alliances
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8/ Typical reddit legal post: Uncle died and left his house to his son, but I'm the one who lived in the house for the past 10 years, and I've been helping my uncle every week, food shopping for him. Also, I'm depressed and this is stressing me out!!!
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9/ I've actually cleaned that up a bit to make it more comprehensible to sane people. The actual post would say "This is my house, it's just in my cousin's name because..." The first 10 times you see "it's my car but it's in her name" you laugh. But around time #11 >>>
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10/ The smart thing to do is to stop laughing and to start analyzing. People apply the "homestead principle" ALL THE FREAKING TIME. "Finder's keepers" "Yeah but I lived here for 2 years" "But I drive it every day" "I touched it last" More and more I've been thinking that >>>
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11/ One of the DEEP QUESTIONS of governance / society building / etc is to make a glue layer that can bind to evolved human norms ("I've been carrying this bow for the last two weeks, and besides, I shot the rabbit you ate last night; OBVIOUSLY it's mine!") to formalism.
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